FAENZA.--Under the name of _Faenza_, an old town of Roman Italy, all sorts of waifs and strays which have no other home are likely to be classed. Its productions have no such peculiarities as mark those of Urbino, Gubbio, and some other Italian "botegas." But for the antiquity and extent of its potteries, and also because it seems to have given the name "_faience_" to all earthen-ware pottery made in France, it has a certain importance. I therefore give a single extract from what Mr. Fortnum has written about it. As there are a considerable number of these druggist's pots (see Fig. 64) in this country, the matter may be of interest. He writes: "From an early period Faenza seems to have produced a large number of electuary-pots and pharmacy-bottles; a pair are in the Hôtel Cluny, one bearing the name FAENZA, the other 1500. Many of these vases are decorated in the style known as _a quartiere_, being divided into compartments, painted in bright yellow, etc., on dark blue, with foliated and other ornament, and usually having a medallion with profile head or subject on one side, under which the name of the drug in Gothic lettering is inscribed on a ribbon. A curious example is in the British Museum: a large flask-shaped bottle of dark-blue ground with yellow leafage and with twisted handles, upon the medallion of which is represented a bear clasping a column, with the inscription, '_et sarrimo boni amici_,' allusive, in all probability, to the reconciliation of the rival houses of Orsini and Colonna in 1517.