Faience Pottery
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Faience is a style of pale, tin-glazed pottery with a fine, and often floral, decoration. A well-know source of Faience pottery in Provence is created in the village of Moustiers-Saint-Marie.
Our current style of Faience pottery originated with French speaker in Italy, but the history of the style goes back to pre-ninth-centure Middle East, or possibly to Egypt some 50 centuries earlier.
Pottery | Potters | Faience Pottery | Moustiers-Sainte-Marie |
These are examples of faïence pottery from Moustiers-Saint-Marie. Click on an image to see a larger photo.
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Blue faience vase with face detail |  |
Plate with bird | |
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Platter/plate with bird |  |
Lace-edged blue plate with bird | |
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Open-edeged plate with fighting birds |  |
Rose plate | |
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Montgolfier plate |  |
Water supply-basin set | |
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Turine and kitchen set |  |
Hummingbird platter |