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In France, tin-glazed earthenware is known as faience. Production
began in southern France near Avignon as early as the 12th to the 13th
century, but it wasn’t until Italian artisans settled in Lyons, Montpellier
and Nimes in the 16th century that the technique took off. These two
examples of faience show influences from two other forms of tin-glazed
earthenware, Dutch delftware in the charger and Italian majolica in the
vase.