The facade of the wall was covered completely in beautifully colored faience. From LearnThat.org.
I have learned since, as she knew all the time, -- that 'faience' is used as a generic term!. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)] Reference
Kiron asked, peering at the circle of stamped faience. From Wordnik.com. [Aerie]
The box was marked "faience du pays"--country pottery. From Wordnik.com. [DesignerBlog] Reference
"La ceramique au XVIIIe siecle: le point sur la faience ...". From Wordnik.com. [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference
It was jewelry, gold coin, faience, and ivory figurines by the thousand. From Wordnik.com. [Sun of Suns] Reference
Next week I am going to Palaiseau and I shall hunt up my book on faience. From Wordnik.com. [The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters] Reference
A small statuette in glistening blue faience, in the shape of the royal hawk. From Wordnik.com. [River God]
"He wears Egyptian faience shoulder brooches!" confirmed the surveyor dourly. From Wordnik.com. [A Body In The Bath House]
While in a brocante in France, I inquired about the origin of a faience plate. From Wordnik.com. [se tromper - French Word-A-Day] Reference
I shall have the package of pamphlets about faience sent to the rue des Feuillantines. From Wordnik.com. [The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters] Reference
Heavily plundered, only a small faience amulet and a lock of hair remained within Tomb 23. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Nubian Cemetery Week 4] Reference
At university, I began beading and scoured the country for beads of glass, faience and wood. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Kemp: So Much To Do. So Little time. And I Love It!] Reference
Note 46: "Secret d'un émail rouge pour faience de Denis Doriot," 26 August 1768, ADSM C/144. back. From Wordnik.com. [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference
On her wrists and left forearm, she wore bracelets of bronze and faience beads separated by agate pieces. From Wordnik.com. [Caucasus Kurgan Cache] Reference
The faience beads were similar to those in the tomb of Tutankhamun, which dates to about the same period. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
There was hardly room enough for the faience cups and plates and the silver trays of scones and sandwiches. From Wordnik.com. [The Wayward Muse] Reference
None were wearing any jewelry fancier than a faience amulet on a leather thong or a string of faience beads. From Wordnik.com. [Aerie]
Bears with ragged staffs stand guard over a plate of modern faience, as they do over the gates of Warwick Castle. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
The interior of the dome was decorated with mosaic, faience and marble, all commissioned by Suleiman the Magnificent. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
Much of the jewelry was Egyptian in make, rich with faience, beryl, carnelian, sard, onyx, lapis lazuli and turquoise. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Frog Amulet, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, Reigns of Ay and Horemheb, ca. 1324-1293 B.C.; purple-glazed faience with brown eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Meresamun: A Temple Singer in Ancient Egypt] Reference
Excavations also yielded a white faience seal, bearing a human image which resembles the seals found in western Iran and Susa. From Wordnik.com. [Blast from the Past: Joobji Female Burials] Reference
More clearing followed, and a six-inch-long faience statuette was brought up from between the two vertical slabs found earlier. From Wordnik.com. [Thirty Years at Kommos] Reference
Materials include: turquoise, carnelian, gold, faience, clay and lapis lazuli some carved into the shape of flies and seashells. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2009 - Field Note 3] Reference
The string of tiny blue faience beads wrapped around the medallion was still in the same position it had been laid 4,000 years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Nubian Cemetery Week 4] Reference
Note: faience is a ceramic, often characterised by a glossy blue glaze resembling precious stones such as turquoise or lapis lazuli. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
He brought me a lovely tropical parrot in faience, of. From Wordnik.com. [Women in Love] Reference
There is also the famous "violon de faience" to be seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rouen] Reference
She picked up the eye of blue faience from the brass tray with well-assumed delight. From Wordnik.com. [There was a King in Egypt] Reference
Dresden ware, also a man ploughing, and two mice climbing up a stalk, also in faience. From Wordnik.com. [Women in Love] Reference
As for the Mauso. the dome is in turquoise blue faience and surrounded by eight slender minarets. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
Margaret longed to tell her that she knew where the bit of blue faience had been found on the day when it was lost in the hut. From Wordnik.com. [There was a King in Egypt] Reference
The latter exist by the thousand, to be sure, but they are generally small statuettes, a few inches high, in bronze, wood, or faience. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Greek Art] Reference
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