Saint-Porchaire ware

Europe tradition · 2 examples · indicative market tier: Under $500 (entry level & living craft)

Saint-Porchaire ware is the earliest French pottery of very high quality. It is white lead-glazed earthenware, often conflated with true faience, that was made for a restricted French clientele from perhaps the 1520s to the 1550s. Only about seventy pieces of this ware survive, all of them well known before World War II. None have turned up in the last half-century. Wikipedia →

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