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Hearst Castle detail, showing tiles supplied by California Faience

California Faience was a pottery studio in Berkeley, California in existence from 1915 to 1959. The pottery produced tiles, decorative vases, bowls, jars and trivets. The pottery was founded by William Victor Bragdon [Wikidata] and Chauncey R. Thomas [Wikidata] who also taught at the California School of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California. The name refers to a pottery style and technique: faience.

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California Faience

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California Faience was a pottery studio in Berkeley, California in existence from 1915 to 1959. The pottery produced tiles, decorative vases, bowls, jars...

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Faience

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Faience or faïence (/faɪˈɑːns, feɪˈ-, -ˈɒ̃s/; French: [fajɑ̃s] ) is the general English language term for fine tin-glazed pottery. The invention of a white...

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Hearst Castle

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tile companies to produce her designs including Grueby Faience, Batchelder, California Faience and Solon & Schemmel. Albert Solon and Frank Schemmel came...

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California pottery

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California pottery includes industrial, commercial, and decorative pottery produced in the Northern California and Southern California regions of the U...

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Julia Morgan

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Harbor. Morgan employed tiles, designing many of them herself, from California Faience. The project proved to be her largest and most complex, as Hearst's...

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List of California College of the Arts people

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Bragdon [Wikidata], established Berkeley's first art pottery company California Faience Bella Feldman, sculptor Linda Fleming, sculptor; large-scale wood...

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Adele Stimmel Chase

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industry in California and its relation to the studio potter in the San Francisco Bay Area". Around 1946, she began working with California Faience, producing...

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Timeline of the San Francisco Bay Area

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Avenue in Berkeley to make and sell faience tiles (Hearst Castle tower, decorated with tiles from California Faience, pictured) Dewing Park in Contra Costa...

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Jane Fauntz

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Navy during World War II, she made ceramic figurines for California Faience in Berkeley, California, and later sold her figurines under the trade name "Jane...

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Roger Noble Burnham

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looking up." Advertized to members of Kiwanis International. Plaque: California Faience (terra cotta, 1922), oval portrait bust of a young woman, height:...

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Ancient Egypt

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agricultural production techniques, the first known planked boats, Egyptian faience and glass technology, new forms of literature, and the earliest known peace...

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Underglaze

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Ptolemaic faience has a self-glazing process. In addition to not using successive layers of glaze after the underglaze, Ptolemaic faience also applied...

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Ushabti

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honored Osiriform gods, gold-foiled; some were more simple of wood, or faience. A receipt for 401 ushabtis produced by Padikhonsu Funerary Ushabti, Albert...

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Mitathal

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This, and the unusually large numbers of faience objects suggest that Mitathal might have been a major faience production centre. Other common surface...

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Ptolemaic Kingdom

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it had been used previously, and sometimes adapted it. For example, the faience sistrum inscribed with the name of Ptolemy has some deceptively Greek characteristics...

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Science

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the properties of various natural chemicals for manufacturing pottery, faience, glass, soap, metals, lime plaster, and waterproofing. They studied animal...

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Turquoise

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fair structure created by an artificial glazed ceramic product known as faience. The French conducted archaeological excavations of Egypt from the mid-19th...

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Blue and white pottery

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scenes, 18th century. Musée Ernest Cognacq Blue and white faience with Chinese scene, Nevers faience, France, 1680-1700. The plate shown in the illustration...

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Sobek

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Amulet of Soknopaios; 305-31 BCE; green faience; 2.7 x 7.9 cm; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, California) Ammit, a female crocodile-headed deity...

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Porcelain

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Marco Polo in the 13th century. Apart from copying Chinese porcelain in faience (tin glazed earthenware), the soft-paste Medici porcelain in 16th-century...

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Dragonfly

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structures such as solar panels are under experimentation. A blue-glazed faience dragonfly amulet was found by Flinders Petrie at Lahun, from the Late Middle...

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Hedgehog

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of a hedgehog. Mycenaean. 14th to 13th century BCE Hedgehog sculpture. Faience. Ancient Egypt, Thebes. 1991 BCE to 1778 BCE Subfamily Erinaceinae (hedgehogs)...

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Natron

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distinct color called Egyptian blue, and also as the flux in Egyptian faience. It was used along with sand and lime in ceramic and glass-making by the...

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Thorsen House

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fireplace in the living room is encased in mauve tile from the Grueby Faience Company. The front door contains leaded art glass in the pattern of a gnarled...

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Lead poisoning

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British ceramic industry. His 852-page treatise, Leadless Decorative Tiles, Faience, and Mosaic of 1904 published that campaign and provided recipes to promote...

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Khnum

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made of soapstone. Amulet of Khnum, of the Ptolemaic Period, made of faience. Psamtik II offers a sacrifice to the god Khnum wearing a solar disk (right)...

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