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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    potential connections between frit and faience. Kühne proposes that frit may have acted as the "binding agent for faience" and suggests that this binder was...
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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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    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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    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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    of faience was Masseot Abaquesne, established in Rouen in the 1530s. Nevers faience and Rouen faience were the leading French centres of faience manufacturing...
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    manufacturing faience, or tin-glazed earthenware pottery, between around 1580 and the early 19th century. Production of Nevers faience then gradually...
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    centre for the production of faience or tin-glazed earthenware pottery, since at least the 1540s. Unlike Nevers faience, where the earliest potters were...
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    Store Kongensgade Faience Manufactury, active from 1722 to the late 1770s, was a faience ceramics manufacturer located on Store Kongensgade in Copenhagen...
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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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    Luneville Faience is one of the most famous French pottery manufacturers. It has been located in Lunéville, Lorraine, France since 1730. Jacques Chambrette...
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    Although it is easier to distinguish between faience and Egyptian blue, due to the distinct core of faience objects and their separate glaze layers, it...
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    been demolished. It has a carillon with 48 bells and a museum devoted to faience. The abbey was founded in the 7th century by a friar named Amand, reconstructed...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    earthenware or "faience" all began using in-glaze or underglaze painting, with overglaze enamels only developing in the 18th century. In French faience, the in-glaze...
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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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    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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    perhaps created accidentally during metalworking or the production of faience, which is a form of pottery using lead glazes. Due to its ease of formability...
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    Ptolemaic faience has a self-glazing process. In addition to not using successive layers of glaze after the underglaze, Ptolemaic faience also applied...
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    god Bes, blue Egyptian faience, between 1540 and 1076 BC, New Kingdom. Museo Egizio, Turin. Amulet of Bes; 1070–712 BC; faience; height: 3.7 cm; Metropolitan...
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  • Kilchberg-Schooren on Lake Zurich and produced a mixture of faience (tin-glazed pottery) and faience fine (lead-glazed earthenware) alongside the more traditional...
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