| The turquoise colour of British faience results from using a copper-based colourant for the glaze. |
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| The other is the name majolica, applied to lustred ware at first, and afterwards to all Italian faience. |
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| An assortment of vases and faience was displayed on a built-in shelf that circled the rotunda. |
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| Artificially squared tesserae of stone, terracotta, faience, and glass appear to be developments of the 3rd century bc. |
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| Now she finds her eye drawn to French faience, a type of glazed earthenware. |
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| Here, beads or pendants of jet or similar materials have been found beside beads of amber, faience, bone, wood, shell or stone. |
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| The hateful practice of clobbering oriental porcelain, already begun, pointed a cheap and easy way to the decorators of faience. |
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| Its panels are decorated with simple blue and yellow faience and semitranslucent calcite ornaments. |
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| It contains beautiful stucco, 17th century tapestries, table laid with faience from Gien and 19th century Val-Saint-Lambert crystal. |
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| Rouen faience, sugar for sprinkling decorated with mantling blue monochrome. |
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| Gold stitching, faience and ancient jewelry give a comprehensive glimpse into the Kingdom's past splendors. |
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| Contains pieces from Apt's former hospital including faience apothecary pots and painted offering vessels. |
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| Later Lunéville faience is painted in overglaze colours in polychrome or green camaïeu and is reminiscent of Strasbourg faience. |
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| The Sarreguemines Faience Trail invites the visitor to learn all about one of the most highly appreciated faience productions in the world. |
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| We know that was the last pharaoh stood at Timna, which was found a fragment of faience with the remains of his name. |
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| Berlin ware, faience and porcelain pottery made in Berlin after 1678, when the first faience manufactory there was founded by Pieter van der Lee. |
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| This passage specifies the functions of these mummiform statuettes, made of wood, terracotta, faience or metal, and in some cases left in the tomb in their hundreds. |
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| Given the scarcity of examples of bird painting on Niderviller faience or porcelain, it is impossible to say what Gerverot's birds may have looked like. |
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| The use of brown, yellow, blue and green as full, unmixed tones is the characteristic colour scheme of Moroccan polychrome faience. |
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| The city of Nevers was the outstanding centre for the production of faience parlante. |
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| Some of the objectives of the project are to restore the Art Deco facade, to rebuilt the faience surrounding the clock, and to replace the rotten metal-framed windows and doors. |
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| Indeed, the faience from a bathroom may end up reproduced in embroidery on bathroom linen, or even the motif from a piece of chinaware may be found replicated on a beautiful linen tablecloth or place mat. |
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| Unfortunately, it will be the last period ostentation, the faience manufacture starts to have financial problems and must be resigned to a production almost strictly commercial. |
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| In all civilisations, perfumes have sparked off an incredible production of precious and refined items in rare materials: alabaster, enamelled faience, ceramic, glass, finely wrought metals. |
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| It was buried extended on his back, within a badly deteriorated painted wooden coffin, and provided with a glazed faience amulet as a grave good. |
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| There were several subgenres of faience parlante. |
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| The son of a successful faience and furniture producer, Gallé studied philosophy, botany, and drawing, later learning glassmaking at Meisenthal, France. |
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| Fine wares and many other small objects were made from faience. |
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| Rectangular panel of faience tiles painted with a horseshoe-shaped arch. |
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| To complete his composition and add splashes of colour, Gauguin has included a European faience bowl, a calabash serving as a jug, fruit, a partly-eaten guava and some oranges. |
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| Quimper faience is known worldwide for its bowls and plates painted by hand, and other towns, such as Pornic, also maintain a similar tradition. |
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| Faience is a glass-like material, made by heating a paste consisting of sand or crushed quartz, an alkali such as plant ash, and a glaze, until vitrification occurs. |
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