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Definitions of faience in various dictionaries:
noun - glazed earthenware decorated with opaque colors
Earthenware decorated with colorful, opaque glazes.
A moderate to strong greenish blue.
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glazed ceramic ware, in particular decorated tin-glazed earthenware of the type which includes delftware and maiolica. |
glazed earthenware decorated with opaque colors |
Glazed ceramic ware, in particular decorated tin-glazed earthenware of the type which includes delftware and maiolica. |
Earthenware decorated with colorful opaque glazes. |
A moderate to strong greenish blue. |
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Faience or faïence ( or ; French: [fajs]) is the conventional name in English for fine tin-glazed pottery on a delicate pale buff earthenware body. It is originally associated by French speakers with wares exported from Faenza in northern Italy. The invention of a white pottery glaze suitable for painted decoration, by the addition of an oxide of tin to the slip of a lead glaze, was a major advance in the history of pottery. The invention seems to have been made in Iran or the Middle East before the ninth century. A kiln capable of producing temperatures exceeding 1,000 °C (1,830 °F) was required to achieve this result, the result of millennia of refined pottery-making traditions. The term is now used for a wide variety of pottery from several parts of the world, including many types of European painted wares, often produced as cheaper versions of porcelain styles. * Technically, lead-glazed earthenware, such as the French sixteenth-century Saint-Porchaire ware, does not properly qualif |