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faience
faience [for Faenza, Italy], any of several kinds of pottery, especially earthenware made of coarse clay and covered with an opaque tin-oxide glaze. The term is particularly applied to the ceramic ornaments and figurines of the ancient Egyptians. See also majolica.
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faience

German faience lobed dish painted with chinoiserie in blue and manganese, Frankfurt am Main, elipsis

Tin-glazed earthenware made in France, Germany, Spain, and Scandinavia, similar to Faenza majolica, for which it was named. The term is also applied to glazed earthenware made in ancient Egypt, where it was used for beads, amulets, jewelry, and small animal and human figures, most notably the blue-glazed hippopotamus figures of the Middle Kingdom (circa 2000–circa 1670 BC). Faience tiles, first made in the early dynasties, were used to decorate the walls of the subterranean chambers of the pyramids. In the New Kingdom (circa 1550–circa 1070 BC), polychrome tiles with floral designs were used in houses and palaces.

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Gifts of the Nile: ancient Egyptian faience.
Mar 01, 1999; Ancient Egyptian Faience Made from the sand of the desert but possessing the allure of gold and semi-precious gems, the ceramic...
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Ancient Egyptian faience.
Sep 01, 1998; Unlike the tin-glazed earthenware of the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, Egyptian faience is not clay but a ceramic...
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Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian faience
Mar 01, 1999; Made from the sand of the desert but possessing the allure of gold and semi-precious gems, the ceramic today known as Egyptian...
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Edward Lycett and the Faience Manufacturing Company.
Jul 01, 2001; The Faience Manufacturing Company (1881-1892) was an important, if short- lived, art pottery maker in New York City. It owed its...
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'That which is brilliant'.(faience production)
May 01, 2008; The ancient Egyptians developed the science of faience production long before the unification of the country in 3100 B.C. By the...
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