faience in art meaning
Egyptian faience Egyptian faience. Egyptian faience is a sintered-quartz ceramic displaying surface vitrification which creates a bright lustre of various colours, with blue-green being the most common. Defined as a âmaterial made from powdered quartz covered with a true vitreous coating, usually in a transparent blue or green isotropic glass, faience is distinct from the crystalline compound Egyptian blue. Notably, faience is considerably more porous than glass proper and can be cast in molds to create vessels or objects ...