Produced by Susan Skinner, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM ART HANDBOOKS. EDITED BY WILLIAM MASKELL. No. 4.--MAIOLICA. _These Handbooks are reprints of the dissertations prefixed to the large catalogues of the chief divisions of works of art in the Museum at South Kensington; arranged and so far abridged as to bring each into a portable shape. The Lords of the Committee of Council on Education having determined on the publication of them, the editor trusts that they will meet the purpose intended; namely, to be useful, not alone for the collections at South Kensington but for other collections, by enabling the public at a trifling cost to understand something of the history and character of the subjects treated of._ _The authorities referred to in each book are given in the large catalogues; where will also be found detailed descriptions of the very numerous examples in the South Kensington Museum._ W. M. _August, 1875._ MAIOLICA BY C. DRURY E. FORTNUM, F.S.A. WITH NUMEROUS WOODCUTS. [Illustration] _Published for the Committee of Council on Education_ BY SCRIBNER, WELFORD, AND ARMSTRONG, NEW YORK. 1876. LIST OF WOODCUTS. PAGE Persian wall tile 7 Damascus plate 13 Hispano-moresque vase 15 Rhodian plate 16 Vase with imitative Arabic inscription 17 Fragment of Damascus vase, from Pisa 19 Siculo-moresque bowl 20 Tondo by Luca della Robbia 25 Betrothal deep plate, Gubbio 30 Plateau, with portrait, Pesaro (?) 31 Sgraffiato circular dish 33 Vase, Gubbio (?) 38 Dish or plateau, Urbino 40 Circular dish, Urbino 41 Plate, a maiolica painter 44 Florentine mark 48