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... 1 KB (172 words) - 01:54, 15 June 2023 |
Saint-Porchaire ware is the earliest very high quality French pottery. It is white lead-glazed earthenware often conflated with true faience, that was... 16 KB (1,788 words) - 21:27, 24 March 2023 |
lead-glazed earthenware, such as the French sixteenth-century Saint-Porchaire ware, does not properly qualify as faience, but the distinction is not... 19 KB (2,200 words) - 21:49, 8 April 2024 |
Saint-Porchaire (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ pɔʁʃɛʁ]) is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in the administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine... 2 KB (79 words) - 20:01, 12 December 2023 |
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... 2 KB (182 words) - 14:46, 3 November 2022 |
The canton of Saint-Porchaire is an administrative division of the Charente-Maritime department, western France. Its borders were modified at the French... 1 KB (117 words) - 16:15, 26 March 2021 |
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... 6 KB (721 words) - 20:50, 27 August 2023 |