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faience
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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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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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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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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Deck's 'artistic faience' at the Musee Du Florival; Marthe and Rene Bloch-Angly have recently presented a munificent gift of ceramics by Theodore Deck to the Musee du Florival in Deck's native town, Guebwiller. It covers almost the full range of his output, and includes some notable rarities.
Magazine article from: Apollo; 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...works illustrated in this article are of faience and were made in the pottery of (Joseph...a pottery in Paris to make 'artistic faience', a scheme by which he attracted a changing...Joseph Cheret; and a copy of Deck's La Faience, ornamentally bound by Charles Meunier...
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FLINT FAIENCE TILES A-Z
Magazine article from: Antiques & Collecting Magazine; 8/1/2004; ; 356 words
; FLINT FAIENCE TILES A-Z By Margaret Carney & Ken Galvas. Hardcover, 8 1...95. This stunning book captures the essence of the successful Flint Faience tile Company's highly diversified production between 1921-33 in Flint...
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faience
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
faience porcelain. XVIII. — F. faïence short for poterie or vaisselle de Faïence , i.e. pottery or ware of the Italian town Faenza.
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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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shabti
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
shabti each of a set of wooden, stone, or faience figurines, in the form of mummies, placed in an ancient Egyptian tomb to do any work that the dead person might be called upon to do in the afterlife. They were often 365 in number, one for each day of the year.
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ceramics
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
ceramics Objects made of moistened clay that are shaped and then baked. Earthenware, terracotta, brick, tile, faience, majolica, stoneware, and porcelain are all ceramics. Ceramic ware is ornamented by clay inlays, relief modelling on...
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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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