Maiolica designates Italian tin-glazed pottery dating from the Renaissance. The name's thought to come from the medieval Italian word for Majorca, an island on the route for ships bringing Hispano-Moresque wares from Valencia to Italy. Moorish potters from Majorca are reputed to have worked in Sicily and it's been suggested that their wares reached the Italian mainland from Caltagirone An alternative explanation of the name's that it comes from the Spanish term obra de Malaga, denoting “[i… (More on Maiolica)