Excerpt from Oak-Leaf Jars: A Fifteenth Century Italian Ware Showing Moresco Influence
The Primitive work of the Italian maiolicanti illustrated in a previous volume - such of it, at least, as a diligent search had enabled me to discover amongst that which Time had spared - sufficed to convey a fairly adequate conception of the native pottery at the beginning of the XV th century. The representation is, perhaps, not complete on all points, although on some it permits conclusions which can be taken as final. We see, for instance, that the technique was then in a experimental stage and that the manipulation betrays the immaturity of youth, but of youth plenteous in promise and of abundant energy. These is the same inherent vitality which in another direction characterized the work of Giotto and Orcagna. These sturdry, vigorous vase-forms also contained the germs of a principle, soon to be fruitful of the happiest results, namely, that common utensils may by grace of design be elevated into things beautiful and precious in themselves. This, indeed, was one of the fundamental canons of the early Italian Renaissance, and none more readily than the potter of the period accepted it as the basis of his practice. Hence we are aware of a marked advance in the decorative qualities of the wares produced after the first two or three decades of the century.
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