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    Faience or faïence (/faɪˈɑːns, feɪˈ-, -ˈɒ̃s/; French: [fajɑ̃s] ) is the general English language term for fine tin-glazed pottery. The invention of a white...
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    Egyptian faience is a sintered-quartz ceramic material from Ancient Egypt. The sintering process "covered [the material] with a true vitreous coating"...
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    2003). En pays Lunévillois, l'histoire de la faïence au XXème siècle (in French). Lunéville: Amis de la faïence ancienne de Lunéville, Saint-Clément et du...
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    Quimper faience is produced in a factory near Quimper, in Brittany, France. Since 1708, Quimper faience ("faïence" in French) has been painted by hand...
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    "William", also known as "William the Hippo", is an Egyptian faience hippopotamus statuette from the Middle Kingdom, now in the collection of the Metropolitan...
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    Creil-Montereau faience is a faïence fine, a lead-glazed earthenware on a white body originating in the French communes of Creil, Oise and of Montereau...
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  • 49°04′23″N 5°07′26″E / 49.073°N 5.124°E / 49.073; 5.124 Musée de la Faïence is a museum in Rarécourt in the Meuse department of France. The museum...
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    Jean, Faience de Nevers, 1585–1900, 4 volumes, (in French) Compain-Murez, Brigitte, "Aperçu des activités humaines dans les paysages de la faïence", 5ème...
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    Herrebøe faience factory (Herrebøefabrikken) was a faience manufacture located in Idd, (now Halden), Norway. Herrebøe was founded in 1759 by Peter Hofnagel...
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  • Öttingen–Schrattenhofen faience refers to a special type of tin-glazed faience from Bavaria, Germany, in Rococo style. It was popular during the 18th and...
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    California Faience was a pottery studio in Berkeley, California, in existence from 1915 to 1959. The pottery produced tiles, decorative vases, bowls,...
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    Aprey Faïence is a name used for the painted, tin-glazed faience pottery produced at a glass-works at Aprey, France. This factory was established in 1744...
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    The Musée de la Faïence de Marseille was a museum in southern Marseille, France, dedicated to faience, a type of pottery. It opened to the public in June...
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  • well known as a producer of Faïence de Desvres known in English as Faience. The Museum of la Belle Epoque de la Faïence de Desvres (which is housed in...
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  • The Frisching Faience Manufactory was a manufactory that produced high class faience manufactures between 1760 and 1776 in Bern, Switzerland. The manufactory...
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    Press, ISBN 0300083874, 9780300083873, google books Lane, Arthur, French Faïence, 1948, Faber & Faber McNab, Jessie, Seventeenth-Century French Ceramic...
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    The Grueby Faience Company, founded in 1894, was an American ceramics company that produced distinctive American art pottery vases and tiles during America's...
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    the current Parc Borély. There are plans to transfer the Faïence Museum (Musée de la Faïence de Marseille) from the Château Pastré to the Château Borély...
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    Strasbourg faience or Strasbourg ware is a form of faience produced by the Strasbourg-Haguenau company in Strasbourg in the 18th century. The company...
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    and elsewhere. Family members continued to produce faïence in different locations until 1733. Faience, the French term for tin-glazed pottery, takes its...
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    Ephraim Faience Pottery is an American art pottery company founded in 1996 in Deerfield, Wisconsin, United States by Kevin Hicks and two partners who...
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  • The communauté de communes du Pays de la Faïence de Desvres is a former communauté de communes in the Pas-de-Calais département and in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais...
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    the fine and decorative arts. It is particularly known for its ancient faïence collection and its remarkable collection of orientalist paintings. It and...
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    ware, of whatever nationality, made in the Italian tradition … the name faïence (or the synonymous English 'delftware') being reserved for the later wares...
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    Aluminia (redirect from Aluminia faience)
    Aluminia was a Danish factory of faience or earthenware pottery, established in Copenhagen in 1863. Philip Schou (1838-1922) was the founding owner of...
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    from Meroë, Kingdom of Kush (Nubia, modern Sudan), 27–25 BC Right: The faience head of Augustus, the first half of the 1st century AD, Museo degli Argenti...
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    epergne, London, 1761 Silver, 1843, for the Crown Prince of Hanover French faience, 1860 French ormolu, later 19th century Oxford University Press: OxfordDictionaries...
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    of Roman Egypt. It includes paintings, sculptures, drawings on papyrus, faience, jewelry, ivories, architecture, and other art media. It was a conservative...
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    He died in Paris. In 1887 he published a treatise under the title La Faïence, which is available in facsimile online. Dish, 1866 Vase with mythological...
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    ontologic significance. Images of the scarab in bone, ivory, stone, Egyptian faience, and precious metals are known from the Sixth Dynasty and up to the period...
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