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	Faience
		Faience, a refined earthenware, is tin-glazed, so-called because tin was added to the lead-based glaze in order to produce an opaque white surface.
		French faience potters developed many different decorative styles, some very elaborate and others quite simple, for use on more common plates and other vessels.
		The type names provided here are from a revision of John Walthall's classification ("Faience in French Colonial Illinois," Historical Archaeology 25 (1991):80-105).
	www.southalabama.edu /archaeology/faience/faience.htm (535 words)

	Ancient Indus Faience ornaments, Harappa. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Harappans developed a very compact glassy faience that was produced in a variety of colors, ranging from white, to blue green, deep blue and even red-brown.
		On the left is a disc shaped ornament of blue green faience.
		At the top center is a bead made of red-brown and white faience.
	www.harappa.com /indus/82.html (118 words)

	Beadmaking Materials - Faience
		Faience is the oldest artificial substance, first made (probably in Egypt) 5,500 years ago, a millennium before glass was invented.
		Faience was still being made in Egypt in the Islamic period, but all of it seems to be large, crude beads, put onto animals to ward off the Evil Eye.
		A faience representation (in two colors) of a Muslim charm case, meant to hold a phrase from the Qoran or a magic square.
	www.thebeadsite.com /BB-FA.html (389 words)

	faience - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		faience [for Faenza, Italy], any of several kinds of pottery, especially earthenware made of coarse clay and covered with an opaque tin-oxide glaze.
		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.
		An unpublished Amenhotep III faience plaque from Mycenae.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-faience.html (452 words)

	Ancient Egyptian faience Magazine Antiques - Find Articles
		Faience objects are generally small, like the funerary figurine and charming hippo shown in Plates II and III.
		Faience is often characterized as an inexpensive substitute for rarer, more costly materials such as turquoise and lapis.
		The techniques of glazing faience with an applied slurry were probably first discovered by accident and then cultivated throughout the Early Dynastic Period and the Old Kingdom (2649-2134 B.C.) to produce objects as diverse as the small seated figure shown in Plate VIII and Fifth Dynasty (2465-2323 B.C.) furniture inlays.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1026/is_n3_v154/ai_21146424 (860 words)

	Egypt: Egyptian Faience, A Feature Tour Egypt Story
		Faience came from possibly humbler ingredients and may have been simpler to work with, but its results are nonetheless as beautiful as the finest of Tutankhamun’s gold.
		Faience is a glazed non-clay ceramic material or silica, composed of crushed quartz or sand, with small amounts of lime, and either natron or plant ash.
		Faience behaves as a solid at first, then becomes soft and flowing as it is shaped.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/faience.htm (1608 words)

	DETAIL: A 2,500 year old ancient Egyptian faience amulet depicting the bust of God Osiris wearing a menat (an (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Faience amulets were produced by crushing quartz mixed with copper and other colouring agents, which was then made into a paste.
		Faience was the forerunner of modern glass, and was manufactured by the Egyptians as far back as 4000 B.C. Faience is composed of ground quartz and sand together with a coloring agent.
		Although faience was made in many different colors, most often the coloring agent used was copper ore, which would impart a turquoise blue or turquoise green color.
	www.neovenator.org /Amulets.htm (1294 words)

	Faience
		Popularly known as "Delft," Dutch faience is characteristic of the wealthy burgher society of Holland in the 16th and 17th centuries, and the Dutch obsession with Chinese porcelain.
		The finest example of Dutch faience pictured here is the polychrome plaque (b) from the third quarter of the 18th century that combines a Chinese basket motif with an arrangement of native flowers.
		Faience was made in England as well as the Netherlands and the AIHA's collection also includes examples of English faience.
	www.albanyinstitute.org /collections/decorative/faience.htm (192 words)

	Antique French Faience of the Last Century
		Earlier on faience had often been thought to be nothing more than peasant ware, and not appropriate in elegant French chateaus or palaces.
		The French faience pottery of the late 19th and early 20th Century revived a long history of the potters’ art, and embodied an artistic and social statement of the times.
		A faience antique can often be identified by the style, composition of the clay, form, glazes, colors, quality, and markings.
	www.aarf.com /frenchsf03.htm (559 words)

	Gifts of the Nile
		Faience is as typically Egyptian as pyramids and obelisks; it is, in fact, older than the pyramids.
		While faience could be made in a variety of shades, the most predominant were blue and greencolors of symbolic value for the ancient Egyptians.
		Faience was a sumptuous material and thus suitable for kings.
	www.clevelandart.org /exhibit/giftnile/index.html (609 words)

	Gien Faience Information Page
		In Gien, a very fine textured white paste is used for the faience which is dense, resonant and covered in a transparent glaze, as brilliant as a crystal.
		A special characteristic of Gien Faience is the "spots" on the underside of all plates and flat serving pieces.
		Gien Faience interpretations of Rouen styles, Dutch blue patterns from Delft, Italian majolica, Marseille rosebuds and others are the pride and honor of Gien.
	www.tableideas.com /Service_Pages/gien-faience-information.htm (1195 words)

	French Faience Pottery
		Faience fine, a later import from England, utilized a fine white clay covered with translucent glaze.
		Quimper remains the most recognized of all faience, and a number of books are available that provide a more detailed description.
		It was first to develop the petit feu method, which allows for the use of crimson, gold, and pink decoration of faience.
	www.myantiquemall.com /AQstories/faience/Faience.html (731 words)

	Antiques, Regional Art, Ancient World, Egyptian, Faience on Trocadero
		The color of the faience is a lovely light blue/green color that remains in excellent condition.
		The large central hole suggests that it was mounted loose over a tubular faience bead and may have been intended to move and perhaps even rattle.
		Faience is low fire terracotta with a self glazing surface.
	www.trocadero.com /directory/Antiques:Regional_Art:Ancient_World:Egyptian:Faience150.html (1027 words)

	Porcelain & Faience, by Guy et Daniele Veroli from French Corner Antiques (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In faience fine, its low fire decor is a trademark of the French faience of St Clement or Luneville manufactures, with centered and symmetrical bouquet.
		Here the distinction between faience and porcelain is hard, the clay body of this faience fine piece is light and fine, and the pure white clay body almost appears to be porcelain.
		Pair of antique French faience fine vases from Gien, C. 1870, with superb polychrome decor in the 18th century style of Rouen, central and symmetrical with floral swags, C scrolls, and lattice and dot pattern complementing the blue Decor Riche border.
	www.french-corner-antiques.com /faience (3524 words)

	Exhibitions (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Faience was a porcelain-like substance used by the Egyptians to create some of their most memorable art, including exquisitely modeled statuettes of kings and gods, delicate inlaid figurines, charming animal sculptures, and amulets and jewelry.
		Faience (pronounced "fie-ahns" or "fay-ahns"), one of the world's most beautiful forms of ancient ceramic, is as Egyptian as the pyramids.
		At the same time, small faience plaques to be inlaid into furniture were produced for grave gifts, while larger wall tiles were made for temple and tomb decoration, the most dramatic example being the 36,000 faience wall tiles that lined several underground rooms of King Djoser's step pyramid at Saqqara.
	www.kimbellart.org /exhibitions/past_gifts.cfm (546 words)

	Faience
		Faience, a refined earthenware, is tin-glazed, so-called because tin was added to the lead-based glaze in order to produce an opaque white surface.
		French faience potters developed many different decorative styles, some very elaborate and others quite simple, for use on more common plates and other vessels.
		Canadian and American archaeologists have developed several methods of classifying the faience exported to 18th-century French colonies in North America.
	www.usouthal.edu /archaeology/faience/faience.htm (535 words)

	Beer Stein Article — “17th and 18th Century Stoneware and Faience Steins”
		In short intervals, therefore, from the end of the 17th to the mid-18th century, faience factories were founded in a multitude of different principalities and small states in Germany, so that by the mid-18th Century approximately 90 factories produced faience in Germany.
		Faience decorations resembling those on Chinese porcelain were all the rage during this period.
		In contrast to the porous clay of faience, the clay of stoneware vessels, which was fired at temperatures of 1200° - 1300° Celsius (2192° - 2372° Fahrenheit), is vitrified, i.e.
	www.beerstein.net /articles/bsj-1c.htm (1488 words)

	Very Rare 18th C French Faience NIDERVILLER CHARGER Plate Plat Rococo Louis XV Beyerle Period - 0505-8
		The difficult and expensive technique called “petit feu,” which first allowed for the use of pastel enamels on faience, such as those found on this piece, was discovered a bit earlier at nearby Strasbourg, by the Hannong factory there.
		Sometimes referred to as faience de l'est, such floral designs were the specialty of the eastern region of France and the Niderviller factory was one of the best.
		As is very common on faience and other tin-glaze wares of this age (236-240 years), there is glaze fritting on the rim.
	www.rubylane.com /shops/mezzetin/item/0505-8 (533 words)

	ArtLex's F-Fh page
		Although the term is sometimes used to mean pottery of all kinds, this breadth of meaning is widely considered incorrect.
		faience, length 9 7/8 inches (25 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
		Statuette of Isis and Horus, 304-30 BCE, Ptolemaic period, Egyptian faience, height 6 3/4 inches (17 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/F.html (3592 words)

	Michele Beiny - Antique Porcelain Co. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Splendid faience fine bust of Louis XV, modelled in two sections in white, the King appearing as a youthful military leader, looking proudly to the left, wearing armor and the ribbon of the Order of the Holy Spirit.
		The top half of the apple lifts off to reveal a faience sand-sprinkler and a (replacement) glass inkwell, set into cavities cut out of the lower portion of the tureen.
		Large and striking faience Dish from a service given by King Stanislas Augustus Poniatowski of Poland to the Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid I. The service was made in 1776 but was not delivered until 1789.
	www.antiqueporcelainco.com /eurfaience.htm (382 words)

	ancient egyptian faience
		Egyptian Faience is a glazed non-clay ceramic material.
		The glazed composition can be modeled into an amuletic shape, or molded in a one or two part mold, sometimes with additional modeling by hand.
		Faience was used not as an inexpensive substitute for costly materials, but for its association with light and re-birth.
	www.ancienttouch.com /egyptian_faience.htm (99 words)

	The Legacy Bookshop and Gallery - Ephraim Faience Pottery (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ephraim Faience pottery—measurements are approximate—Availability of pieces varies; they retire some pieces.
		Ephraim Faience Pottery creates art pottery vases and tile in the Arts and Crafts style.
		Our original designs and glazes, which are inspired by nature, reflect both the Craftsman aesthetic of a century ago and the studio's rural Wisconsin surroundings.
	www.thelegacygallery.com /faience.htm (108 words)

	Quimper Faience
		Your selection is simply and elegantly gift boxed in navy blue and adorned with a white grosgrain ribbon inscribed with Quimper Faience.
		Even the glazing technique is done by hand, creating an uneven finish, and small pinholes or air bubbles here and there, which is characteristic of this charming earthenware.
		We strongly recommend hand-washing your faience to protect the beauty of the pottery.
	www.quimperfaience.com /cust.asp (309 words)

	Faience Wall Pocket Desvres George Martel c1930
		The subject matter is a small Fleur-de-Lis vase with a coat of arms on the front, and a hole in the back, suitable for hanging on the wall.
		The underside is marked GM in under glaze blue, the mark of GEORGE MARTEL, and 1906 for a decorators mark.
		Desvres faience was a famous art pottery technique whereby tin glazes and decorations are applied over modeled terra cotta clay forms, and fired several times in a kiln.
	www.antiqnet.com /detail,faience-wall-pocket,1342961.html (285 words)

	Faience in Nubia
		Already the Kerma culture seems to have produced faience on a substantial scale, but especially in the Meroitic Period faience objects are common, and distinct in details of production from those in Egypt.
		More research is needed into the technology of Nubian faience: the precise dating of the following objects is only certain when the object bears the name of a king.
		Faience objects of the Meroitic Period (about second century BC to fourth century AD).
	www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk /nubia/faience.html (138 words)

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