A bowl of Talavera ware of the eighteenth century, painted in imitation of the Italian maiolica ware, is also in the Museum. The colours used are green, blue, orange, and manganese tint, which are usually found on the Spanish pottery of this period. The well-known and extensive potteries at Alcora were established by Count Aranda in 1726, where porcelain and pipeclay wares were made with all kinds of designs, mostly imitations of France, Holland, England, and China. Most of the principal painters and modellers at these works were Frenchmen or Germans. The names of the chief artists were Haly, Knipper, Martin, Garces, Ferrer, and Prato. The Duke of Hijar, son of Count Aranda, succeeded his father (1800-1858) in the management of the Alcora potteries. A specimen of this ware is shown in the Rococo plaque (Fig. 8) with the subject of Galatea. [Illustration: Fig. 8.—Earthenware Plaque; Alcora Ware. (S.K.M.)] Another celebrated pottery, connected with royalty, was founded by King Charles III. in 1760 in the gardens of the royal palace of Buen Retiro at Madrid. This King, coming from Naples to inherit the Spanish Crown at the death of his brother Ferdinand, was anxious to establish a similar pottery in Madrid to that which he had previously founded at Capo di Monte, at Naples, so he brought his staff of artists, workmen, and director of the works, Bonicelli, over from Italy to Madrid, and established the Buen Retiro works at a great cost. The yearly expenses of these works were £20,000, and all the pottery made was for the exclusive use of the King and Royal Family, and was sent as presents to foreign princes. This was the case for the first thirty years until the death of Charles III. (1798), after which the pottery was allowed to be sold, but at a very high price. The workmanship of this pottery is good, but there is nothing particularly artistic about it. The designs are in the false taste of the late Italian mixed with Louis Seize incrusted motives. A vase in the Buen Retiro ware is shown at Fig. 9. A room in the royal palace, Madrid, is covered with plaques of this ware. [Illustration: Fig. 9.—Buen Retiro Ware. (S.K.M.)] MAIOLICA. Before the advent of Maiolica ware in Italy a similar kind of pottery was made in Spain, which had the stanniferous or opaque tin glaze and the golden lustre that belonged to the best examples of Italian maiolica. We refer to the Hispano-Moresque ware. This opaque stanniferous glaze was known to the Arabs of Spain from the end of the thirteenth century, or more than one hundred years before Luca della Robbia (who died in 1430) produced his enamelled earthenware.