Sotheby’s and my MIL are conspiring to get me thinking about Majolica again…

Yesterday I went on an image collecting spree in the new Sotheby's catalogue. No, it wasn't paintings (not in the traditional sense anyway) I was after. Yesterdays catalogue was chock-full of lovely majolica pieces.  What is majolica you ask? Well, here are some lovely historical examples based on what I had just pilfered via the interwebz...

 

( Wherein I post images and droooooool….. )

 

The follow up to all this 'Majolica Dreaming' was my mother-in-law calling this morning to remind us that we could reach her on her trip to Italy via her cell phone. I had to refrain from asking her to take a spare bag and raid a local museum before heading back. *le sigh*