[Sca-cooks]Italian Ceramics was trenchers

[Johnna Holloway]

I think this would answer the question but I don't own it.
http://www.getty.edu/bookstore/titles/ceramics.html
Italian Ceramics
Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collections
Catherine Hess
J. Paul Getty Museum
224 pages, 9 x 12 inches
50 color and 217 duotone illustrations, 17 line drawings, 2 maps
ISBN 0-89236-670-2
hardcover, $85.00

Johnnae

Terry Decker wrote:

> While it's been around for a few thousand years, majolica came back 
> into vogue in 14th Century Spain and was given widespread popularity 
> in Italy by the Della Robbia family of Florence.  I don't have any 
> information on the trade in majolica handy, do you?
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> Bear
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