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