| The Dutch not only exported dishes and other | | | | The white lead-glazed earthenware of St |
| domestic wares they also exported the Dutch | | | | Porchaire was decorated in an unusual manner by |
| tiles to England and other European nations. Thus | | | | impressing it in patterns with small metal stamps |
| the making tiles became a separate branch of | | | | and filling the marks with colored clays. This small |
| pottery making. And some of the important | | | | sixteenth-century pottery has had a chequered |
| pottery making places was Hamburg, Frankfurt, | | | | literary history, and a century ago was the |
| Hanau and Bayreuth was outstanding centers. | | | | subject of speculation and bitter argument among |
| Bernard Palissy was one of the famous potters | | | | experts; first stated to have been at Lyons, then |
| whose students spread his styles of pottery. | | | | at Beauvais, and again Oiron, it has been decided |
| Dutch tin-glazed pottery, known by the name of | | | | that it was actually located at St Porchaire, north |
| the town of Delft where it became established | | | | of Bordeaux. Only just over sixty pieces of the |
| eventually, was made in great quantities and much | | | | ware survive, and most of them are in museums. |
| was sent to England. Not only was there a big | | | | It has been faked, and the English Minton factory |
| trade in dishes and other domestic wares, but | | | | made exact copies of known examples. |
| Dutch tiles were sent also. These were of | | | | Other French potters were affected closely by |
| sufficient importance to become a separate | | | | Italian work, but by the seventeenth century the |
| branch of pottery making; some men made them | | | | factory at Rouen was making a tin-glazed |
| to the exclusion of all else, and sets of tiles were | | | | majolica of character with decoration in red and |
| painted to be placed together and form pictures. | | | | blue. Potteries at Marseilles, Moustiers, Strasbourg, |
| Germany, also, had numerous potteries making | | | | and elsewhere shortly became prominent, and |
| tin-glazed wares, and those of Hamburg, | | | | today French faience is recognized as having a |
| Frankfurt, Hanau and Bayreuth were outstanding | | | | distinction of its own that rivals porcelain. It was |
| centers; the first-named, together with | | | | well made and well painted; the shapes were |
| Nurem-burg, being noted for making the great | | | | interesting and often strikingly unusual. |
| glazed and decorated pottery stoves used for | | | | The Swedish potteries at Marieberg and |
| heating rooms in many Continental countries. Much | | | | Rorstrand made excellent wares in original shapes |
| of the output resembled the earthenware being | | | | with fine decoration towards the end of the |
| made elsewhere at the time, and much remains | | | | eighteenth century. At about the same date a |
| confused with contemporary English and Dutch | | | | Norwegian factory at Herreboe made some |
| work. Many German and Swiss potters made | | | | equally interesting pieces. Productions from these |
| lead-glazed wares with slip and sgraffito | | | | factories are rare outside Scandinavia. |
| decoration; much of it inscribed and dated. There | | | | All types of wares were made in Portugal, but |
| were big centers for the making of stoneware at | | | | most are indistinguishable from those of Spain, |
| Cologne and Siegburg, the latter near Bonn. Much | | | | Italy and Holland. A century ago, a pottery was |
| of the output was decorated elaborately with | | | | founded at Caldas da Rainha by Manuel Mafra, and |
| impressed patterns, and a large quantity of be liar | | | | has made imitations of Palissy-ware and other |
| mines was made; these are jugs with fat bodies | | | | colour-glazed pieces ever since. Some bear the |
| and short thin necks, the head of a bearded man | | | | maker's mark, others do not. |
| impressed on the front. | | | | Different potters used in different countries and |
| Bernard Palissy, whose life span embraced almost | | | | different styles of glazes. The Dutch potters use |
| the whole of the sixteenth century, made dishes | | | | the tin-glazed known as Delft. Many German and |
| and other pieces modeled with lizards, shells, | | | | Swiss potters used the lead-glazed wares with slip |
| leaves and fishes. The clay of which these are | | | | and sgraffito decoration and the white lead-glazed |
| made is whitish, and Palissy and his followers | | | | earthenware of St Porchaire. When a new design |
| covered it effectively with colored transparent | | | | or style becomes popular different potters would |
| glazes. It is said that 'no class of pottery has been | | | | fake it. |
| so widely copied for fraud'. | | | | |