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Pair of French Barbotine Pots

H=7 3/4, Handle to Handle=9

Barbotine is a technique of pottery decoration involving the application of a slip to the pot, not in an even layer but in the form of thick incrustations in patches or trails. In certain types of pottery the barbotine decoration may form a picture or a pattern.

Barbotine technique in pottery styling was in use in the ancient world. The Egyptians were known to have used barbotine design. As another example, an archeaological recovery at Minoan Knossos on the island of Crete in present day Greece reveals barbotine pottery specimens. The word barbotine is derived from the ancient Rhenish culture, where the technique was later in use. The word was also used by the Haviland Company of France to describe the Impressionistic pottery manufactured at their Parisian suburb studio during the 1870s and early 1880s. The term "Barbotine ware" also describes the early American art pottery that emulated the Haviland pottery.

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