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| | Porcelain & Faience, by Guy et Daniele Veroli from French Corner Antiques |
 | | Antique soliflore French faience vase from Gien, made during the French Art Deco period, and featuring the "Decor a la goutte" reminiscent of Oriental art in vogue at the end of the nineteen century. | | | Faience fine saucer from the East of France, with stenciled floral handpainted delicate decor. | | | This antique French faience fine inkwell is from the East of France, possibly Strasbourg. |
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http://www.french-corner-antiques.com/faience
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| | Konakovo Faience Factory > About us |
| | Thanks to the creative efforts of wellknown Russian masters of fine arts and its artistic qualities the Konakovo faience was repeatedly awarded the highest prizes at international exhibitions. | | | The factory won the Grand Prix at the Paris World Exhibition of 1937, the Silver Medal at the Brussels Exhibition of 1958, medals at the 1962 and 1979 International Ceramics Exhibitions, the Gold Medal at the Plovdiv Exhibition of 1984. | | | Wonderful and inimitable skill of painters, technical perfection of the articles instantly won the well-de-served recognition. |
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http://www.faience.ru/eng/about.shtml
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| | Antique French Furniture, Lighting, Majolica @ SPARROWS |
| | Sparrows offers the Baltimore-Washington corridor an incomparable selection of French antiques, including 18th through early 20th century furniture, lighting, ironwork, sculpture, paintings, majolica, faience and pottery, country to formal, in a full range of styles and periods up to and including Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Art Moderne. |
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http://www.sparrows.com
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| | Beer Stein Article — “17th and 18th Century Stoneware and Faience Steins” |
| | This technique required a very sure and skilled hand because at this stage the artist was painting on a “wet” glaze that had not yet been fired. | | | Muffel painting always entailed painting on a smooth finished faience product which could be sent out to be painted by independent artists outside of the faience factory — the so-called Hausmalers. | | | Most steins from the 17th and 18th centuries are products of the potter’s art. |
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http://www.beerstein.net/articles/bsj-1c.htm
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| | Gifts of the Nile |
| | The sections of the exhibition that follow are devoted to women's use of faience, faience in daily life, and funerary uses. | | | The exhibition is organized by the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, with major support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Carl and Carolyn Haffenreffer, and the National Endowment for the Arts. | | | Statues of the king were also made of faience, and it was a prized material for royal gifts. |
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http://www.clemusart.com/exhibit/giftnile
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| | The dramatic transformation was probably responsible for the central role of faience in Egyptian ceramic art for more than three thousand years. | | | Some two hundred of these works of art are the subject of the first major exhibition devoted to this medium. | | | But a few unusually large works survive, such as a six-foot high scepter in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, which is a tantalizing reminder of the large artifacts, now lost, that were created for Egypt's monuments. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1026/is_n3_v154/ai_21146424
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| | French Faience, Quimper and Desvres Pottery |
| | French Faience, Quimper Pottery and Desvres Pottery specialists | | | On our Quimper pottery, Malicorne and Desvres page you will see several interesting Quimper Pottery pieces, such as an early Quimper HB Petite Bretonne Plate, and a Quimper Henriot Bird Dish. | | | You will find many fine pieces of French Faience in this website. |
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http://www.webstall.net/searchmaxpro/french_faience.htm
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| | Quimper Faience, Keraluc, Gaetano Pesce art and European and Scandinavian Ceramics |
| | Quimper Faience, Keraluc, Gaetano Pesce art and European and Scandinavian Ceramics | | | Quimper Faience collecting is in our blood...We regularly go on "shopping trips" to France and will be presenting pieces from the major Quimper Faience Factories such as Kéraluc, HB, Henriot, Paul Fouillen, Atelier du Steir, Jean-Claude & Marjatta Taburet...and more as we develop this site. | | | We are passionate about Ceramics, Design & Art ! |
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http://www.ceramics-design.com
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| | Antiques, Regional Art, Ancient World, Egyptian, Faience on Trocadero |
| | This ring has been rejoined from two authentic fragments which do not,... | | | Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Egyptian: Faience Pre AD 1000: item #441174 | | | Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Egyptian: Faience Pre AD 1000: item #440278 |
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http://www.trocadero.com/directory/Antiques:Regional_Art:Ancient_World:Egyptian:Faience270.html
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| | faience on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Deck's 'artistic faience' at the Musee Du Florival; Marthe and Rene Bloch-Angly have recently presented a munificent gift of ceramics by Theodore Deck to the Musee du Florival in Deck's native town, Guebwiller. | | | Luxurious forms: Redefining a Mediterranean "international style," 1400-1200 B.C.E. [faience] [for Faenza, Italy], any of several kinds of pottery, especially earthenware made of coarse clay and covered with an opaque tin-oxide glaze. | | | Magazines and Newspapers for: faience or search in Pictures and Maps for faience |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/f/faience.asp
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| | Gien Faience Information Page |
| | This meant that the over-elaborate style could be replaced by better, clearer and better spaced-out designs, painted in a range of blues and yellows. | | | Each item is numbered, completely hand painted and signed by the artist. | | | It was especially during the sixteenth century that the production of faïence became widespread in France, in part due to the influence of their Italian neighbor. |
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http://www.tableideas.com/gien-faience-information.htm
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| | Wallis Gallery of Antiquities Antiques,Regional Art,Ancient World,Egyptian,Faience Directory |
| | Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Egyptian: Faience | | | Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Egyptian: Faience: Pre AD 1000 item# 529419 (stock# EA-50606q) | | | Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Egyptian: Faience: Pre AD 1000 item# 529418 (stock# EA-50606p) |
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http://www.trocadero.com/BUYANCIENT/catalog/Antiques:Regional_Art:Ancient_World:Egyptian:Faience20.html
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| | Antique French Faience of the Last Century |
| | The French faience pottery of the late 19th and early 20th Century revived a long history of the potters’ art, and embodied an artistic and social statement of the times. | | | As seen in Antiques and Art Around Florida, Summer/Fall 2003 | | | Earlier on, faience had often been thought to be nothing more than peasant ware, and not appropriate in elegant French chateaus or palaces. |
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http://www.aarf.com/frenchs03.htm
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| | Quimper Faience |
| | One artist completely handpaints, from start to finish, thus each piece is unique reflecting individual touches of the painter. | | | Welcome to Quimper Faience the exclusive importer and distributor of HB-Henriot Quimper pottery. | | | Since 1690, the Faienceries de Quimper HB-Henriot has continuously handpainted each piece of faience without the use of decal or stencil. |
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http://www.quimperfaience.com
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| | Gifts of the Nile |
| | Work at the Cleveland Museum of Art was begun as part of the research for a catalogue of the museum's Egyptian collection, to be published later this year. | | | Aside from its inherent and timeless beauty, faience is an amazing technical achievement. | | | The Cleveland Museum of Art is temporarily closed for renovation and expansion (January–July 2006). |
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http://www.clemusart.com/exhibit/giftnile/conserv.html
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| | Quimper, Desvres and French Faience Pottery Alan & Janet Mayfield |
| | Welcome to this website which specialises in French Faience, including Quimper, Desvres and Malicorne, as well as European and British Art and Studio Pottery. | | | Quimper, Desvres and French Faience Pottery Alan and Janet Mayfield | | | To view any current items for sale please click on the eBay icon below. |
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| | Midwestern Decorative Arts-Craftsmanship as Inspiration |
| | She founded the Cincinnati Women's Pottery Club, an outlet for young women interested in the "therapeutic" value of handcrafting items-one of the fundamental beliefs of the Arts and Crafts movement. | | | Mary Louise McLaughlin also played a major role in the Cincinnati art pottery movement. | | | She discovered the process for "Cincinnati Limoges" or " Cincinnati faience," a process of underglaze decoration with colored slips. |
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http://www.cl.utoledo.edu/canaday/artsandcrafts/decarts.html
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| | The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Works of Art: Egyptian Art |
| | Beneath the blue-green glaze, the body was painted with the outlines of river plants, symbolizing the marshes in which the animal lived. | | | It was molded in faience, a ceramic material made of ground quartz. |
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http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view1.asp?dep=10&full=0&item=17.9.1
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| | Beadmaking Materials - Faience |
| | This was done especially in the Armarna Period, when the heretic monotheist Akhenaten was Pharaoh. | | | Several necklaces like this were found in the tomb of his son, King Tut. | | | Faience was made in many countries other than Egypt. |
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http://www.thebeadsite.com/BB-FA.html
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| | French Faience Pottery |
| | Today it's still possible to build a great (and less expensive) French faience collection- with or without a single piece of Quimper- if you look carefully. | | | Luneville is a name one still finds on many pieces of faience; they specialized in pottery decorated with flowers and coqs (roosters). | | | Majolica, delft, and faience are really names for similar ceramic products. |
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http://www.myantiquemall.com/AQstories/faience/Faience.html
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| | 'Gifts of the Nile' a brilliant showcase of ancient Egyptian art |
| | The small blue-green objects that ancient Egyptians believed helped prepare them for eternity are on brilliant display in the exhibition "Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience" at The Cleveland Museum of Art. | | | This would have been in honor of Hathor, who had as one of her titles "mistress of faience." | | | Readers interested in the monotheist Pharaoh Akhenaten and his short-lived capital of Amarna will find a collection of faience and glass fragments found in 1926-27 in a workshop complex near the royal palace. |
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http://www.post-gazette.com/magazine/19980526bnile1.asp
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| | A SHORT HISTORY OF FAIENCE |
| | Usually, painting faience objects was a second or third occupation for these people. | | | Faience, see Figure 1, became popular in Europe as an affordable substitute for porcelain which had been imported from China since the 12th century, but could be acquired only by the very rich. | | | Several names keep appearing over and over on this list as both artists and owners. |
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| | Quimper faience - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The pottery's design reflects a strong traditional Breton influence. | | | Quimper faience is a style of faience produced in a factory near Quimper, in France. | | | This page was last modified 09:18, 16 August 2005. |
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| | Budyanskiy faience |
| | The new shapes of salad-bowls are been worked up. | | | We are proud to be successors of those masters that deserved the right for the works to be titled as “The Supplier of the Court Of His Majesty” and made our lands famous far beyond its borders. | | | Respecting the traditions of the faience manufacturing that were worked out for years, we add innovations necessary for today’s market, improve the technology, work out unique faience mixtures, glaze, paints, production methods of processing the ware and new ways of decoration. |
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| | Faience in Nubia |
| | One of the highlights of arts and crafts in Nubia is the production of faience objects. | | | Already the Kerma culture seems to have produced faience on a substantial scale, but especially in the Meroitic Period faience objects are common, and distinct in details of production from those in Egypt. | | | Faience objects of the Meroitic Period (about second century BC to fourth century AD). |
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http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/nubia/faience.html
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| | Quimper Faience |
| | How can I tell if a particular pottery piece was made by the Faienceries de Quimper HB Henriot factory and is not faux Quimper? | | | Authentic HB-Henriot Quimper faience markings read as such, HB-Henriot Quimper France. | | | Every piece of HB-Henriot Quimper Faience is unique and one of a kind. |
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http://www.quimperfaience.com/FAQs.asp?FAQMID=2&NumFaq=10&bmode=Main
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| | Gien Dinnerware Patterns, Garnier Thiebaut, and Laure Japy from TableIdeas |
| | Gien China is made of fine faience earthenware. Les Faienceries de Gien was founded in 1821 in Gien, France. | | | Gien Faience Dinnerware - the fabulous collection of Gien china with beautiful patterns and vibrant colors is known all over the world. | | | Garnier Thiebaut French table linens are made of fine 100% cotton damask of the highest quality. |
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| | Palissy Ware |
| | Other ceramists pursued the Palissy tradition from more distant locations in France including the brothers Jean-Baptiste and Emile Gambut from Beaune; Jules Lesme from Limoges; and, Alfred Renoleau from Angoulême (western France). | | | Additionally, the most important French faience factories, such as Choisy-le-Roi, Sarreguemines, Lunéville, Longchamps, and Onnaing included commercial quantities of Palissy ware as part of their repertoire. | | | In France alone, more than twenty-five individual ceramic artists, 150 or more apprentices, scores of unknown makers whose works bear no mark, and countless factory employees produced Palissy ware for nearly fifty years. |
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| | Lamb's handmade bricks, gauged arches, terracotta, faience and stone |
| | Since Victorian times we have offered our customers an unrivaled selection of authentic facing bricks and complementary stone, terracotta and faience. | | | Whether you are restoring an historic building or designing a new building in an authentic style, Lamb's can assist. | | | Also supplies architectural faience in a wide variety of colours. |
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http://www.lambsbricks.com
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| | Amazon.ca: Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience: Books |
| | An excellent book of examples,of Egyptian Paste [ pottery ], July 6, 1999 | | | The ancient Egyptians named it tjehnet, meaning that which is brilliant or scintillating, and in their eyes it glistened with symbolic light. | | | There is little gold to catch the eye and no colossal statues to marvel at in the exhibit, but many of the faience pieces selected are important and most are exquisite. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0911517650
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| | Faience - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Egyptian and earlier faience was not made of clay but rather of a ceramic composed primarily of quartz. | | | Mottoes of fellowships and associations became popular in the 18th century, leading to the Faïence patriotique that was a specialty of the years of the French Revolution. | | | This definition also applies to beads that were made in Predynastic Egypt, circa 4000 BC. |
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| | Egypt: Egyptian Faience, A Feature Tour Egypt Story |
| | Faience hippopotamus figurines, frequently painted with scenes of aquatic plants, were also popular at this time. | | | Incising and inlaying of faience also became more frequently used, as was carefully executed linear designs in dark paint on a blue background. | | | Other than these and a few others, the many workers who left their works for us to see remain nameless. |
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| | Faience |
| | Faience was made in England as well as the Netherlands and the AIHA's collection also includes examples of English faience. | | | By 1650, faience potteries were centered in the city of Delft, whose name became generic for the ware. | | | In the second half of the 18th century, both Dutch and English faience were supplanted commercially by English lead-glazed earthenwares known as creamware and pearlware. |
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| | Vessel for Scented Oil with Patterned Bands (Getty Museum) |
| | Faience is made from quartz silicate, which produces a glass-like glazed surface when fired. | | | Greek artists adopted the Egyptian alabastron's shape in the 600s B.C. but made the vessel in a variety of materials. | | | The alabastron was made in three pieces: the mouth and foot were molded, and the body was formed on a potter's wheel. |
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| | For books on Quimper, French faience or travel to France. | | | Click here for a story about a mother and daughter; about the love of Brittany, and the love of its popular Quimper ceramics. |
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| | Faience Technology |
| | The term faience is used for objects made entirely from the glazed material, as distinct from | | | This body is coated with a soda-lime-silica glaze that is generally a bright blue-green colour due the presence of copper (Nicholson 1998: 50). |
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| | ArtLex's F-Fh page |
| | faience, length 9 7/8 inches (25 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. | | | Statuette of Isis and Horus, 304-30 BCE, Ptolemaic period, Egyptian faience, height 6 3/4 inches (17 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. | | | Although the term is sometimes used to mean pottery of all kinds, this breadth of meaning is widely considered incorrect. |
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http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/F.html
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| | Egyptian Faience Vessels |
| | Other items made of faience can be found in the sections |
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| | FAIENCE - LoveToKnow Article on FAIENCE |
| | It is often particularly applied to the translucent earthenware made in Persia (see CERAMICS). | | | To properly cite this FAIENCE article in your work, copy the complete reference below: |
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| | Archaeology Wordsmith |
| | It is also used for the tin-glazed earthenware made in France, Germany, Spain, and Scandinavia as distinguished from Faenza Majolica, and that made in The Netherlands and England, which is called delft. | | | It is a substance composed of a sand and clay mixture baked to a temperature at which the surface begins to fuse to a bluish or greenish glass. | | | But most accurately, it is the primitive form of glass developed in Mesopotamia in the 3rd millennium BC and then, almost as early, in Egypt; it is sometimes called Egyptian faience. |
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http://www.reference-wordsmith.com/cgi-bin/lookup.cgi?category=&where=headword&terms=faience
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| | Faience |
| | French faience potters developed many different decorative styles, some very elaborate and others quite simple, for use on more common plates and other vessels. | | | Canadian and American archaeologists have developed several methods of classifying the faience exported to 18th-century French colonies in North America. | | | The type names provided here are from a revision of John Walthall's classification ("Faience in French Colonial Illinois," Historical Archaeology 25 (1991):80-105). |
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http://www.southalabama.edu/archaeology/faience/faience.htm
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| | Ancient Indus Faience ornaments, Harappa. |
| | This bead is possibly an imitation of the bleached carnelian eye beads. | | | The Harappans developed a very compact glassy faience that was produced in a variety of colors, ranging from white, to blue green, deep blue and even red-brown. | | | This unique ornament may have been sewn onto cloth or inlaid onto a metal ornament. |
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