Maiolica Olé Spanish and Mexican Decorative Traditions Featuring the Collection of the Museum of International Folk Art

Featuring the fine collection of seventeenth- to nineteenth-century Spanish and Mexican maiolica at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, this book explores and celebrates Spanish traditional ceramics of Old and New Spain. Renowned ceramic expert Florence C. Lister and archaeologist Robert H. Lister studies 144 examples of historical maiolica in what is the first study of its kind tracing the decorative styles, influences, and innovations in a ceramic tradition that is almost a millennium old.