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Faience

Glazed blue, like the inside of a delicate, antique plate.

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Faience is a rich blue.

It can be described as rich, full, medium and fairly saturated.

Set in white, because white reads best on it.

Faience

Faience

Faience or faïence is the general English language term for fine tin-glazed pottery. 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, after 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.

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faience

Noun

  1. A type of tin-glazed earthenware ceramic, used domestically for tableware and in architecture as a decorative material.
  2. Beads or small ornaments made from frit, from the eastern Mediterranean of the Bronze and Iron Ages.
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