French Faience Bowl

A beautiful 19th Century French faience bowl or centerpiece! Hard to find with these unusual pink and green colors! Also very special web like design! Made at the end of the 19th Century in France. Fabulous for many designs! Faience or faïence is the conventional name in English for fine tin-glazed pottery on a delicate pale buff body. The invention of a pottery glaze suitable for painted decoration, by the addition of an oxide of tin to the slip of a lead glaze, was a major advance in the history of pottery.

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