This catalog of Italian maiolica and incised slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge gives detailed information on over five hundred objects in the collection. It includes late medieval earthenware from Orvieto and Perugia, as well as Renaissance and later maiolica from such regions as Sicily, the Abruzzi and Perugia which reached their peak at a later date. Compiled by a leading expert in the field, this catalog will prove an indispensable work of reference for scholars and students of the applied arts.

This beautifully illustrated book gives a colorful impression of the vitality and diversity of English pottery made between the late thirteenth and the late twentieth century. It describes the main types of earthenware and stoneware, and discusses the most important technical, stylistic and social influences that shaped their development. The sixty-four pieces of pottery shown in a historical sequence are in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, which houses one of the world's most extensive and varied collections of English pottery.