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‖ faience|fajɑ̃s|
Also 8 fayance, 8–9 fayence.
[a. Fr. faïence, prob. an appellative use of the proper name † Fayence, Faenza in Italy, one of the chief seats of ceramic industry in 16th c.]
‘A general term comprising all the various kinds of glazed earthenware and porcelain’ (Fairholt).
Hence faiˈenced ppl. a., covered with faience.
1714Fr. Bk. of Rates 152 Fayances or Earthen-Ware. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) IV. 28 Roman fayence, called Raphael's earthen-ware. 1835Marryat Olla Podr. xiii, Every article of fayence. 1879J. J. Young Ceram. Art 41 The Chinese..seek to equal the wonderful coloring of the faience of Persia. 1883W. H. Bishop in Harper's Mag. Mar. 504/2 A Henri II. faience candlestick. 1954Koestler Invisible Writing xii. 137 The mosaic floors and faïenced walls convey even to-day an image of perfection. |