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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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Tin-glazed pottery (section Faience)
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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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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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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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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The museum contains the collections of the former Musée de la Faïence de Marseille (Faience Museum) at Château Pastré, Fashion Museum, the decorative arts...
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Rörstrand (redirect from Rorstrand faience)
factory had indeed been given the privilege to produce true porcelain, but faience was the only ware that was actually produced until the 1770s. In 1758,...
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Niderviller pottery (redirect from Niderviller faience)
village of Niderviller, Lorraine, France since 1735. It began as a maker of faïence (tin-glazed earthenware), and returned to making this after a period in...
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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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History Museum, the Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille, the Musée de la Faïence de Marseille and the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Marseille are some...
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III with separate sliding drawer, from 1390 to 1353 BC, made of glazed faience, dimensions: 5.5 × 7.7 × 21 cm, in the Brooklyn Museum (New York City)...
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