faience

The rest of the furniture of this privileged apartment consisted of old cabinets, filled with Chinese porcelain and Japanese vases, Lucca della Robbia faience, and Palissy platters; of old arm-chairs, in which perhaps had sat Henry IV.

Splendid enamels gleamed here and there on carved chests; a boar's head in faience crowned a magnificent dresser, whose two shelves announced that the mistress of the house was the wife or widow of a knight banneret.

New Yorker Sidney Knafel has been collecting French faience since the 1960s.

This book compiles the sketches and drawings of artist Philip Ashforth Coppola, who has spent 40 years of drawing the ornamental design and architecture of the New York City subway system: tiling, mosaics, relief sculptures, faience (glazed ceramic), plaques, metalwork, light fixtures, and stations.

L'art de la decoration est egalement mis a l'honneur par des couvertures de livres anciens, des ornements de portes photographies en Egypte et au Maroc et des revetements en faience de plusieurs tombeaux en Turquie.

The Flint Faience Tile Company had its origins in a meeting between Champion and Carl Bergmans, a Belgian ceramist working for the American Encaustic Tile Company in Zanesville, Ohio.

By contrast, she can follow the technical improvements in faience, which are gradually exploited to produce new forms and object classes.

Freres musulmans et armee se regardent ces jours-ci en chiens de faience. Le clash entre les deux principales forces politiques et economiques qui...

Britain and Holland were not the only countries to make these wares, however, and if this little bear could speak it would be with a French accent, as this is an example of French faience.

We examine the treatment of urinary incontinence in Ancient Egypt with faience in the light of current concerns regarding the treatment of dysfunctional elimination in children with milk of magnesia.

One example, a turquoise faience glazed pottery hippo (pictured below) is up for sale at auction on Wednesday.

'During the period of Asia's great sleep, admirable small fragments of faience and mosaic used to fall gently into the silence.