La Faïencerie De La Nouvelle Orleans: French Colonial Faience Production In New Orleans, Louisiana

Author(s): Thurston Hahn III

Year: 2018

Summary

Archaeologists invariably blame the French for all of the ceramics laying about South Louisiana colonial period sites, even those dating to the Spanish colonial period.  But were the ceramics actually made in France?  Could they have been manufactured locally?  One Spanish period redware kiln has already been examined archaeologically in St. James Parish.  Indeed, not only did potiers, or makers of redware, work in the French colony of La Louisiane, so too did faïenciers.  This paper presents ongoing research documenting faience production in New Orleans, Louisiana, between 1728 and 1732+ and its potential archaeological implications.

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La Faïencerie De La Nouvelle Orleans: French Colonial Faience Production In New Orleans, Louisiana. Thurston Hahn III. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441422)

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Keywords

Temporal Keywords
1728-1732

Spatial Coverage

min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;

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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

Record Identifiers

PaperId(s): 715