Here the room was tolerably crowded; and I got into conversation with a group of townspeople round the white Fayence stove.
I found the little marble slabs deserted--even the billiard-table abandoned, and all the guests collected round the white Fayence stove.
He was originally established at St. Amand in the manufacture of fayence as early as 1775, and probably carried on both works simultaneously.
Also they complained that great quantities of Genoese fayence were imported into Languedoc and Provence, and spread over France, which was absolutely ruinous to the trade of the two provinces, and especially to Marseilles.
Fayence of all descriptions was extensively made at Valencia throughout the 17th and 18th centuries.
The principal as well as the earliest centre for the manufacture of fayence was in this city, and the finest known specimen of Moorish fayence is the celebrated vase of the Alhambra, which is supposed to be as early as the palace itself, viz.
A manufactory of fayence was in existence here throughout the 17th and 18th centuries.
Examples of the fayence of the 18th century are frequently met with, signed FDV--F.
There is in the Victoria and Albert Museum a fayence barrel of brown glaze with gilt hoops, dating apparently from the first half of the 18th century, and it is impressed with the name of Miles (see Fig.
The fayence is mostly painted in polychrome; the colours are blue, brown, yellow, green, and violet.
The earliest evidence of the making of fayence at Nevers is the foundation of a fabrique by Dominique Conrade, in the latter half of the 16th century, which was carried on by his son and grandson.
At the end of the 18th century a fabrique of fayence was carried on by a Herr Schmidt, who assiduously copied the English ware; there are specimens in the Sevres Museum bearing the counterfeit mark of "Wedgwood.
Maiolica fina orfayence only is still continued to be made, the manufacture of porcelain, for which at one time the works were so famed, not having been revived.
The earliest known fabric of this earthenware is that mysterious and unique manufacture of the "Renaissance," the fine Fayence of Henry II.
The paste of which this Fayence is composed is equally distinct from Majolica and Palissy ware.
Many antiquaries, therefore, infer that the manufacture was at Thouars, in Touraine, although the Fayence may have been the work of an Italian artist.
I had been recommended by my friends among the commis voyageurs at Fayence to an hotel of the right sort.
A church as large as this would hardly have been built in England in the eighteenth century for a thriving town; for one of the size of Fayence the idea of it would have been laughed at.
The rest of the male population of Fayence was buying and selling outside in the market, or in the shops, or talking together on the terrace steps above the place, or in the cafes, or walking up and down the steep streets.
From the little side garden with the fish pond, Fayence could be seen on its own hillside, and a range of blue and purple hills beyond it.
I have been able to wash out the sulphates from several Egyptian fayence figures in spite of the glaze, the fissures in which allowed the water to penetrate into the interior.
The people of Fayence complained to the Governor of Provence, and he authorised them to take what measures they liked to free themselves of the inconvenience.
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