Faience Research Papers - Academia.edu (original) (raw)

A funerary compound was excavated in the Negev Highlands in southern Israel in 2021 in a site remote from any settlement and situated at the crossroad of two important trails leading through the central Negev Highlands.
The excavations revealed the remains of over 50 individuals, interred in a tomb of a type found in southern Arabia together with several alabaster objects related to preparation and burning of incense on incense burners made from clay, basalt and limestone. Other objects discovered in the burials include scarabs, amulets, bronze and silver jewelry, a variety of beads including glass and carnelian beads and bone rings, shells and a bronze "spectacle" fibula produced in southern Europe. Preliminary analysis of the remains and associated finds point to the burial of women.
The small number of ceramic vessels that were uncovered suggests a date of the mid-first millennium BCE.

- by Tali Erickson-Gini and +1
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- Archaeology of Ancient Israel, Faience, Glass Beads, Ancient Jewelry

SUMMARY: Chapter 8, in Renfrew & Bahn's textbook (Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice), covers what typically survives, what constitutes an "artifact", interpreting usage, obtaining materials (e.g., quarrying; mining), transporting materials, installing materials, manufacturing items, identifying function, experimental archaeology, etc., regarding stone, bone, antler, shell, leather, wood, plant, metal, faience, glass, and other materials and diverse artifacts. In my view, this is one of the best college textbooks available, and is invaluable for students, archaeologists, and the public in general, to obtain a top notch overview of approaching and interpreting the archaeological record. UPDATED May 2023.

- by Gregory Mumford
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- Archaeology, Experimental Archaeology, Anthropology, Ethnoarchaeology
- by Femke Grops
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- Values, Glass (Archaeology), Faience, Imitation

In the first half of the 19th century emerged in Caldas da Rainha an authored ceramics mostly done for decorative purposes. In this article are listed some of the masters craftsmen and manufacturers that produced and developed this type... more

- by Edgar Vigário
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- Art, History of Art, Ceramics (Art History), Faience

The KU Leuven Dayr al-Barsha project worked in al-Shaykh Sa'id, just north of Amarna, in 2007-2010 and 2014, and discovered on the hillside, north of the mouth of the Wadi Zabayda, archaeological remains of a royal domain, dating to the reign of Khufu. Afterwards, royal workshops were established on top of the Old Kingdom remains to supply the New Kingdom city of Amarna with a range of different goods. Due to severe erosion, hardly any traces of buildings survive, but the industrial waste left behind provide sufficient clues that besides a vast stone artefact industry, the artisans were also making objects in faience, glass and copper. Objects relating to the textile industry were also uncovered. The presentation will give an overview of the archaeological finds relating to the various industries active at al-Shaykh Sa'id during the Amarna-period, and a comparison will be made with the faience and glass industry in the city of Amarna.

Paire de soupières Marseille atelier de Robert après 1765, décorées en camaïeu de manganèse sur une face du corps et du couvercle d’armoiries de mariage de:
Marie « Louise » de La BARBERIE DE REFFUVEILLE, qui épouse le 13 janvier 1765 « Nicolas » Henri de COUCQUAULT D'AVELON. Né le 1 Mai 1725 -† avant 1804. Marquis d’Avelon, officier des Gardes françaises, retraité en 1784 maréchal de camp.

- by Francis Hernandez
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- XVIII century, Heraldry, 18th & 19th Centuries, 18th Century Art
- by Liliana CECI
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- Faience, Verres Et Céramiques

Beads made out of faience appear in various shapes which are rarely very characteristic for a single period or region. The so-called openwork bead (also called lantern bead) of the Late Bronze Age may represent an exception because of its morphological uniqueness. Hence implications on contacts and trade relations might be deduced from the distribution of these beads. I will discuss the following points: the distribution of the openwork bead in the Central/Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East, the archaeological contexts, the origin of the bead type, the implications of scientific analysis and the question of local and foreign production in vitreous materials in Middle and Late Bronze Age Italy. It will be demonstrated that the openwork bead should be considered a Mycenaean type, and consequently that it might be as useful as ceramics in providing evidence for Mycenaean influence in Northern Italy.

- by Stéphanie Boulet
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- Industrial Archaeology, Faience, Ceramics, Boch Freres La Louviere
- by Andrew Jamieson
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- Egyptology, Faience

Les Le Roy faïenciers à Marseille au XVIIIeme siècle.

- by Francis Hernandez
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- XVIII century, Faience, Marseille

The Bronze Age Cemetery from Sebeș - Între răstoace

- by Liviu Balan and +1
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- Funerary Archaeology, Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology), Bronze Age Archaeology, Middle Bronze Age
- by Francis Hernandez
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- Art History, XVIII century, Faience, Marseille

In archaeology, the study on crafts focuses on a series of processes that consist of procurement of raw materials, transformation into objects, circulation and consumption. It aims at understanding the socio-cultural role of crafts in a given society of a specific period. With this purpose, the identification of raw materials and distributions of their sources, the reconstruction of technology that was used for their production, the excavation of workshops, morphological studies on objects, the understanding of the distribution patterns of specific artefacts, and patterns of consumption and disposal, are the subjects of study. Focusing on the Indus urban period, a number of studies have been conducted on crafts. Especially, since the artefacts made of materials, which were distributed unevenly from region to region, have been found quite uniformly over the region where the Indus urban system prevailed, the preceding studies have focused on revealing the provenience of raw materials

- by Kyoko Yamahana and +1
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- Archaeological Science, Ornament (Archaeology), Faience, Egyptian Faience Glazing

SUMMARY: Lecture 15 provides coverage on the art, architecture, state, administration, and economy of the Late Bronze Age Mycenaeans, and a discussion of the presumed Mycenaean takeover or domination of Crete (Minoans); the Minoan initially influenced mainland Greece, while the Mycenaeans later influenced Crete. This lecture is designed mainly as an educational resource for college students (i.e., normally posted only on my institution's course website), the public (e.g., people auditing my course), and interested colleagues from other disciplines (to whom I provide copies privately). I am posting it here, both as a broader access, educational tool, and especially to promote the study of this region and its past societies. For further knowledge about this region and period, I refer interested parties to the textbooks and other sources from which the materials were extracted (see syllabus), and/or the bibliographies in these works and my online resource guides (see other files in my academia folders). The lecture summarizes the pertinent materials in the course textbook(s), adding in other data, and furnishing numerous images to clarify information encountered within the textbook(s). Some generic imagery (usually indicated as such) is posted to aid in transmitting various concepts visually, and/or when a specific image remains not located (temporarily). I update and revise such lectures each time, with such elective courses normally being taught once every two years. I try to cover the most current, mainstream views, and usually place summary notes at the end of each lecture alongside some of the key sources used for compiling the ppt. Over time, each lecture is improved, errors rectified, and additional data placed within the lecture. These ppt. lectures take many hours to compile, but they have proved useful to many of my more serious students and I hope they can be of benefit to others as well. My apologies for any errors I may have made, and my liberal usage of educational imagery from professional sources and vetted internet sources. REVISED: March 2024, new formatting, slides, and text, with some text modifications, also adding a Late Minoan IIIC (1200-1100 BCE) summary section at the end, and additional sources.

- by Francis Hernandez
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- XVIII century, Freemasonry, Faience, Marseille

Um guia da faiança portuguesa dos séculos XVIII e XIX indexado pela área de produção.

- by Edgar Vigário
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- History, Art History, 18th & 19th Centuries, Ceramics (Art History)
- by Michael Tite
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- Archaeology, Geochemistry, Archaeological Science, Scanning Electron Microscopy
- by Luis Ortega
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- Cultural Heritage, Pottery (Archaeology), Archaeometry, Archaeometallurgy

O fabrico de faiança portuguesa durante os séculos XVIII e XIX sofreu diversas influências primeiro da louça chinesa que tentava emular e mais tarde de padrões ingleses e dos revivalismos franceses da produção do renascentista Bernard Palissy, todavia, os portugueses em vez de copiarem sobretudo reinventaram criando interpretações com uma identidade própria.

- by Edgar Vigário
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- Art History, Decorative Arts, Faience, Ceramics

Jean Baptiste CLERISSY fils de Joseph (vers 1643-† 30.04.1685) et d'Anne Roux (-†1694), & de son fils Claude, faïenciers successivement à Montpellier (10 ans), Bordeaux (10 ans) pour le père, 50 ans pour le fils Claude, puis le père à Marseille de 1725 à 1740 chez FAUCHIER et enfin à Varages où il décède en 1754. Fontaine armoriée, manufacture Jacques Hustin où ont travaillé de nombreux ouvriers, Nivernais, Rouennais, ou du midi, dont ; Jean Baptiste CLERISSY a travaillé 10 ans & son fils Claude 50 ans.

- by Francis Hernandez
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- Genealogy, XVIII century, 18th & 19th Centuries, 18th Century Art

Національний музей історії України. Тематичний збірник наукових праць. - К : “Фенікс”, 2011. - 376 с. : іл. - ISBN 978-966-651-940-8. У збірнику вміщені наукові статті співробітників Національного музею історії України, присвячені... more

- by N_M_U_H (K)
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- History, Piano, Archival Studies, Portraits

Amulets are small-sized objects with magic or prophylactic properties. At Naukratis, they represent a significant group of material with almost 1,400 finds spanning a time range from the Middle Kingdom to the Roman period, with a particular prominence in the 6th-3rd century BC. Scarabs and scaraboids, locally produced in the so-called Scarab Factory, have received much interest in scholarship for they were widely distributed across the Mediterranean and feature a variety of motifs that reflect the cross-cultural dynamics at Naukratis. By contrast, more than 90% of the Egyptian amulets brought back from Naukratis remained unpublished, and many more were left at the site as they were deemed not worthy to be collected.
The present study aims to provide a more complete vision of the extant finds from the early excavations, allowing for a fundamental reassessment of the amuletic corpus from Naukratis and its significance. It starts with a presentation of the Scarab Factory—its products and associated moulds—followed by a discussion of a group of less-known and difficult to interpret scarabs and scaraboids made in stone. It then focusses on the variety of other types of amulets discovered at the site, some of which were probably locally produced and possibly formed another key export from Naukratis. Their subjects tally in general with contemporary amulets found elsewhere in Egypt and the Mediterranean world. Finally, the recontextualisation of amuletic finds from Naukratis reveals how this material was not exclusively aimed at export, but also found a more local and traditional market. Beyond the trade perspective, amulets reflect beliefs and ritual practices by inhabitants and visitors to this international riverine port. Exploring questions of production and distribution as well as consumption of these amulets at Naukratis, this work opens new debates and stresses the need for new typological classifications, as much as for consideration of provenance, significance and use.

Faïence Maçonnique de Marseille XVIIIe siècle atelier de la Veuve Perrin.

- by Francis Hernandez
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- Art History, XVIII century, Freemasonry, Research into Freemasonry

The aim of this paper is to shed light on the chronology, spatial distribution, iconography and social aspects of the faience figurines of the late Middle Kingdom. These figurines represent a broad range of animals taken both from the wild fauna and from the domestic environment; they also include human (as dwarves and truncated female figures) and hybrid (such as Aha/Bes; Ipy/Taweret) beings, and objects of the inanimate and vegetal worlds. The corpus taken into consideration in this paper relates only to those faience figurines (ca. 619 items) coming from documented archaeological contexts. A full list of figurines is appended to the text in order to provide summary information on their archaeological context, the types in use, their pattern of distribution in different geographical sectors (in Egypt and in adjacent areas, such as Nubia and Levant), and full bibliographic references.

- by Gianluca Miniaci
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- Egyptology, Funerary Archaeology, Middle Kingdom, Figurines
- by Attila Kreiter and +2
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- Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Experimental Archaeology, Geochemistry

On désignait autrefois, sous le nom de faïenciers, les membres d'une corporation qui comprenait les verriers et les émailleurs, ceux, en un mot, dont les travaux avaient pour but de transformer, par l'action du feu, les terres siliceuses... more

- by Luca Pesante
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- Ceramics (Art History), Ceramics (Archaeology), Faience, Ceramica postmedievale

Metal trade and access to raw materials during the Late Bronze Age—roughly covering the New Kingdom in Egypt—have received substantial attention from past and present scholarship. Despite copper and lead remaining essential commodities afterwards, our knowledge about their supply during the Iron Age and later periods, in contrast, remains limited, even if it has improved recently. This paper presents the results of a pilot project investigating the possible sources of lead and copper available to Egypt during the Late Period (664–332 BCE), a period of intense contact and exchange between Egypt and the Mediterranean world. In the context of this research, a wide range of artefacts from Naukratis, a major cosmopolitan trading hub in the Western Nile Delta founded in the late 7th century BC, were analysed to determine their chemical composition and lead isotope ratios. They mostly consist of metal finds—including a crucible slag—but also some locally produced faience objects which used lead and copper to colour the glaze. Additional samples include metal objects and lead ores from Tell Dafana, a Late Period settlement in the Eastern Delta, and contemporary Egyptian or Egyptianizing bronzes from Cyprus.
A total of 39 objects were analysed with a combination of lead isotope and elemental analysis, yielding surprising results for the likely origins of the copper. While Cyprus, an expected source for copper, is identified for one object, the copper deposits from Faynan or from northwestern Anatolia offer the best match for most finds, including those found in Cyprus. The lead analysed seems to originate from a variety of mines, particularly from Laurion in Attica, and mines in the northern Aegean and/or northwestern Anatolia, with one example possibly from a lead‑silver mine located in central Iran. The multiplicity of lead sources reflects the complexity of international trade in the Eastern Mediterranean at the time. The study offers a valuable insight into the trade networks of Egypt and, by extension, the whole of the ancient Mediterranean. A larger-scale project investigating objects from a wider range of sites in the Eastern Mediterranean world could revolutionize our understanding of metal trade and concomitant economic, political and social developments in the first millennium BC.

- by Aurelia Masson-Berghoff (Masson) and +2
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- Cyprus, Archaeometallurgy, Ancient Anatolia, Provenance studies of archaeological material

A rectangular faience “plaque” with incurved sides and relief imagery on both faces, now in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is said to have come from the “temple-palace” of Ramesses III in Tell el-Yahudiyeh and on that basis it has been described as a tile and dated to the Twentieth Dynasty. A modest corpus of related monuments that provide representational parallels and textual evidence, however, strongly supports the identification of the work as a model tambourine, and suggest a Third Intermediate Period date and Tell Basta as its source.

- by Deborah Schorsch
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- Ancient Egyptian Religion, Egyptology, Third Intermediate Period, Faience

A comprehensive study of faience grape clusters apparently used as architectural adornment specifically used in New Kingdom palaces. The study presents all known excavated examples of these grape clusters before beginning an analysis of their symbolic value in ancient Egyptian art and society and how they might relate to ancient Egyptian concepts of kingship.

- by Filipa Leite
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- Museum Studies, Museum, Collections Management, Collecting and Collections
- by christine lilyquist
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- Ancient Egyptian Religion, Ancient Egyptian Iconography, Faience, Sinai

Il volume integra gli studi precedenti dell’autore sugli Aegyptiaca della penisola appenninica, sulla Sardegna fenicia e punica e sulle isole maltesi. Vi si trattano le importazioni dalla terra del Nilo e gli oggetti egittizzanti di altra origine, scoperti in siti della Sicilia greca e d’influenza greca. Oltre a reperti eccezionali come i frammenti di un vaso di Ramesse II, ricostruito con il metodo fotogrammetrico, proveniente da Siracusa, una situla in bronzo o uno straordinario falco in blu egiziano, ambedue recuperati a Selinunte, sono esaminati gli scarabei egizi provenienti da tombe della seconda metà dell’VIII sec. a.C. (Villasmundo, vicino a Siracusa), molti scarabei di produzione egea e alcuni fenici con motivi egizi, vasi, amuleti (tra cui bellissime cipree) e statuette in faïence egizia di varia origine del VII secolo, così come i prodotti dell’insediamento greco a Naukratis situato nel Delta del Nilo (VI sec. a.C.).
Illustrano il volume 40 tavole, in parte a colori.
Con il contributo di Elfriede Haslauer sugli ushabti di Lipari

- by Niels Groot
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- Archaeology, Near Eastern Archaeology, Archaeometry, Ceramic Analysis (Archaeology)

This PDF is the text volume of the book 'Working in Memphis' and is made available courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society from whom hard-copies may still be available (complete with DVD not included in this upload). Please note that... more

- by Paul Nicholson and +1
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- Faience, Egyptian Faience Glazing
- by Marina Panagiotaki and +1
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- Minoan art and archaeology, Faience