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- Porcarius (French: Porcaire or Porchaire) is the Latin word for "swineherd" and was occasionally used as a masculine given name in the early Middle Ages...
- Saint-Porchaire ware is the earliest very high quality French pottery. It is white lead-glazed earthenware, often conflated with true faience, that was...
- Porcarius II, in French Porchaire II or Porcaire II (died c. 732), was a Benedictine abbot who governed the Abbey of Lérins at a time when the monastery...
- Saint-Porchaire (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ pɔʁʃɛʁ]) is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in the administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine...
- lead-glazed earthenware, such as the French sixteenth-century Saint-Porchaire ware, does not properly qualify as faience, but the distinction is not...
- The canton of Saint-Porchaire is an administrative division of the Charente-Maritime department, western France. Its borders were modified at the French...
- life-size Yixian glazed pottery luohans of the Liao dynasty (907–1125), Saint-Porchaire ware of the mid-16th century, apparently made for the French court and...
- the church of Notre-Dame-la-Grande (12th century), the church of Saint-Porchaire (12th century) or Poitiers Cathedral (end of the 12th century) as well...
- piece of fine white pottery may have derived from ****za, Urbino, Saint-Porchaire or even China. In Palissy's time pottery covered with beautiful white...
- wares in all but the most rustic contexts. The French 16th-century Saint-Porchaire ware is lead-glazed earthenware; an early European attempt at rivalling...