Glazed earthenware ashtray, faience d'art proceram 72

Glazed earthenware ashtray, faience d'art proceram 72. 

Beautifully executed glazed green earthenware ashtray. This ashtray has an insert, through which the ash of the cigarette is hidden from the eye and the ashtray remains visible in all its beauty. Green glazed ashtray with a logo of a unicorn on both sides.

Marked on the bottom: Faience d'art proceram, Made in France 72.

• Height: 5.5
• Length: 9.5 cm.
• Width: 9.5 cm.

Faience is the conventional name in English for fine tin-glazed pottery on a delicate pale buff earthenware body. It is originally associated with French speakers with wares exported from Faenza in northern Italy. The invention of a white 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. The invention seems to have been made in Iran or the Middle East before the ninth century. A kiln capable of producing temperatures exceeding 1,000 °C (1,830 °F) was required to achieve this result, the result of millennia of refined pottery-making traditions. The term is now used for a wide variety of pottery from several parts of the world, including many types of European painted wares, often produced as cheaper versions of porcelain styles.

Technically, lead-glazed earthenware, such as the French sixteenth-century Saint-Porchaire ware, does not properly qualify as faience, but the distinction is not usually maintained. Semi-vitreous stoneware may be glazed like faience. 

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