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faience

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Glazed earthenware; esp., that which is decorated in color.

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Glazed faience beads were produced and terracotta figurines became more detailed. Source: Internet

Culture Delft blue is most famous but there are other kinds of Delftware, like this plate faience in rose Delft is well known for the Delft pottery ceramic products which were styled on the imported Chinese porcelain of the 17th century. Source: Internet

ISBN 0-262-02061-0 Egyptian blue was used to paint wood, papyrus and canvas, and was used to colour a glaze to make faience beads, inlays, and pots. Source: Internet

One of the first faience patterns produced in the French town of Luneville c. 1728 by Jacques Chambrette was «», a brilliant polychrome made possible by the pure white of the tin glaze. Source: Internet

By the beginning of the eighteenth dynasty (1850 B.C.), faience making and glass making had become two separate crafts. Source: Internet

Inside, the walls have been covered in tiles through a technique, originally developed in Iran, called “mosaic faience,” a process where each tile is cut, colored, and fit into place individually. Source: Internet

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