French Faience – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/french-faience
Faience, or tin-glazed and enameled earthenware, first emerged in France during the sixteenth century, reaching widespread usage among elite patrons during the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, prior to the establishment of soft-paste porcelain factories.
painting compositions can be seen in an elaborate potpourri with a cover ( 50.211.82a,b)
