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| | CERAMICS IN FAENZA |
 | | In the second half of the century, around 1870, thanks to Achille Farina, majolica painter trained as a ceramist at the Ferniani pottery together with a group of skilled decorators, a real painting school on majolica was started: imitating the technique of easel painting, it has left water-colours views and unrivalled portraits. |
 | | This style is characterised by a thick white coating of glaze with the range of colours reduced to a blue and two tones of yellow (light and orange). |
 | | Among the attempts of reviving it at the beginning of our century, those of the "Fabbriche Riunite di Ceramica" must be mentioned for giving a new start to nineteenth-century potteries, under a single management; in the same years, in addition, a newly founded firm, the pottery of the Minardi brothers, was started. |
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