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faience
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fa·ience
/ fīˈäns; fā-/
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n.
glazed ceramic ware, in particular decorated tin-glazed earthenware.
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Ancient Egyptian faience.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 9/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Middle Ages and Renaissance, Egyptian faience is not clay but a ceramic consisting almost...produced small-scale masterpieces of faience from about 3500 B.C. until the first...article. The immediate charm of Egyptian faience is the glaze, often blue-green - the...
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Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian faience
Magazine article from: Middle East; 3/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...the ceramic today known as Egyptian faience was both a versatile and magical material...Colourless when it entered the kiln, faience was transformed by firing into the sparkling...practical and useful material, however, faience was imbued by the ancient Egyptians with...
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Gifts of the Nile: ancient Egyptian faience.
Magazine article from: The Middle East; 3/1/1999; 700+ words
; Ancient Egyptian Faience Made from the sand of the desert but...the ceramic today known as Egyptian faience was both a versatile and magical material...Colourless when it entered the kiln, faience was transformed by firing into the sparkling...
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Flattery for faience: imitating ancient materials reveals lost manufacturing secrets. (Cover Story).
Magazine article from: Science News; 1/19/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...an ancient Egyptian material known as faience. It's a type of ceramic with a quartz...grapes. "This is why we look at ancient faience and we go `How did they do that...researchers have revealed fine details of faience manufacture and composition that were...
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Edward Lycett and the Faience Manufacturing Company.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; The Faience Manufacturing Company (1881-1892) was an important...and work. Even less work has been done on the Faience Manufacturing Company. [2] Incorporated in February 1881, the Faience Manufacturing Company was "virtually a family...
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'That which is brilliant'.(faience production)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 5/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...ancient Egyptians developed the science of faience production long before the unification...commissioned his pyramid around 2630 B.C., faience was being used extensively in the manufacture...with an estimated 36,000 blue-green faience wall tiles, shaped to look like the reed...
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Derivation of ancient Egyptian faience core and glaze materials.
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 3/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...blues in ancient Egyptian materials - faience, glazes, frits - is copper. How did...is the origin of the materials used for faience cores (bodies) and glazes. Ancient...article proposes that the powders make faience cores and blue glazes and, perhaps...
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BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS: On the Amenhotep III Inscribed Faience Fragments from Mycenae.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; Faience fragments excavated by Chrestos Tsountas...originally blue or green (like Egyptian faience usually is), inscribed in black.(1...these bricks in Egypt are usually of faience (Weinstein 1973: 126f.), and the example...
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An unpublished Amenhotep III faience plaque from Mycenae.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/1990; ; 700+ words
; Two fragments of a faience plaque with the cartouche of Amenhotep...possibly as many as nine, Egyptian faience plaques found at this site. Eleven...new reconstruction of all the Egyptian faience plaques found at this site. These plaques...
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Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience.
Magazine article from: Interior Design; 8/1/1998; ; 488 words
; Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience Florence Dunn Friedman, editor Neat York...beautiful and authoritative book on Egyptian faience. Not to be confused with later European faience, the majolica or tin-glazed earthenware that...
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faience
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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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Islamic art and architecture
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...dynasty. It is characterized by its use of the horseshoe arch, faience and stone lattice screens, as seen in the Alhambra . Islamic...16th century in Isfahan, where entire walls were decorated in faience. Perhaps the best-known art of the Islamic world is that...
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Phoenician art
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...principal Phoenician excavations are at Byblos , but Phoenician works in jewelry, glass, clay, alabaster, ivory, many metals, faience, and wood are found in all Mediterranean countries and neighboring areas of Asia Minor. Their textiles too, particularly...
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Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Amarna ; Boğazköy ). An Eastern congener of Mesopotamian epigraphy is found in the seal inscriptions on faience and ivory (c.3000 BC) at the archaeological sites of the Indus valley civilization . Long after, in Persia, the Achaemenids...
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Decorative Arts
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...even political — relief decoration, while southern Europe (Spain, Italy, and France) excelled in earthenware (faience, majolica) using painting with metallic oxide pigments on tin glazes for colorful pictorial scenes (istoriato) or shimmering...
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