Discoloration in Majolica Pottery

Video Transcript

"When your collecting this majolica some of the other considerations besides chips and cracks to think about when your purchasing these pieces. The discoloration your going to find and there is going to be discoloration in varying degrees on these pieces cause they are early and very porous and very dry. They taken all of what's around them in example we can see here in the shell is there crazing going on it's discolored because the glazes are broken down. And the dark surface underneath that just can't be washed off for a piece this age it's not bad, the bottom looks very clear there's crazing but some discoloration. But that doesn't take away from the piece this is a really nice piece if you wanted to invest some money, this one is a good one to think about. Here you can see a little discoloration to this is crazing on the bottom and really ware around the corners of the bottom of the piece. This doesn't take away from the piece at all this is not a problem at all your going to find on the inside to there's some discoloration from use. They actually used these pieces so there's browning inside there which doesn't at all take away from the piece at all. Where as if you take a look at this leaf design and you look at the back you can see where the glaze is totally broken down. It's very porous and it absorb all the dirt and whatever debris that has accumulated that won't come out you can bleach, there is some bleaching techniques you can use to lightening this. But the piece is really porous so be careful when you make choices on picking especially leaf patterns like this with discoloration like this. This is not the most desirable thing to buy so there is degrees of discoloration on the scale of being some of the highest degree of discoloration as oppose to something like this. With less discoloration and much more desirable so something to think about when your buying a piece."