faience

NOUN
  1. glazed earthenware decorated with opaque colors
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How To Use faience In A Sentence

  • Here, beads or pendants of jet or similar materials have been found beside beads of amber, faience, bone, wood, shell or stone.
  • Hood has suggested that the statue at Knossos may have looked like the snake goddess shown in faience in the Temple Repositories.
  • This passage specifies the functions of these mummiform statuettes, made of wood, terracotta, faience or metal, and in some cases left in the tomb in their hundreds.
  • La faiencerie avec un bel etalage d'evier coloré et de cuvette de chiotte. Pinku-tk Diary Entry
  • Hood has suggested that the statue at Knossos may have looked like the snake goddess shown in faience in the Temple Repositories.
  • Tin-glazed earthenware, or faience, was introduced in the early sixteenth century in imitation of Chinese porcelain to France, Germany and the Netherlands, and by mid-century it had arrived in England.
  • The turquoise colour of British faience results from using a copper-based colourant for the glaze.
  • This passage specifies the functions of these mummiform statuettes, made of wood, terracotta, faience or metal, and in some cases left in the tomb in their hundreds.
  • The other is the name majolica, applied to lustred ware at first, and afterwards to all Italian faience.
  • Contenant les procédés et nouvelles découvertes, la fabrication du minium, celle d'une nouvelle substance pour la couverte, celle des couleurs vitrifiables, l'art d'imprimer sur faïence et porcelaine, et un vocabulaire de termes techniques et chimiques: avec gravures ..., ed. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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