[ noun ] glazed earthenware decorated with opaque colors <noun.artifact>
faience \faience\, Faience \Fa`["i]*ence"\, n. [F., fr. Faenza, a town in Italy, the original place of manufacture.] Glazed earthenware; esp., a fine variety that which is decorated with colorful designs in an opaque glaze. [1913 Webster +PJC]
faience \faience\, Faience \Fa`["i]*ence"\, n. [F., fr. Faenza, a town in Italy, the original place of manufacture.] Glazed earthenware; esp., a fine variety that which is decorated with colorful designs in an opaque glaze. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Gamal Fares Abu-Fares, a young antiquities inspector, plucked a blue faience statuette from a desecrated brick tomb more than 2,000 years old.