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• faience
  faience

  noun

  glazed earthenware or pottery, especially a fine variety with highly colored designs.
• faïence
  faïence

  noun

faience

American  

[fahy-ahns, fey-, fa-yahns] / faɪˈɑns, feɪ-, faˈyɑ̃s /

Or faïence

noun

1. glazed earthenware or pottery, especially a fine variety with highly colored designs.

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faïence British  

/ feɪ-, faɪˈɑːns /

noun

1. 1. tin-glazed earthenware, usually that of French, German, Italian, or Scandinavian origin

   2. ( as modifier )

      a faïence cup

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Etymology

Origin of faience

1705–15; < French, originally pottery of Faenza, city in northern Italy

Example Sentences

But before we talk of him I am going to tell you just a little about the Henri Deux ware, sometimes known as Faience d'Orion.

From The Story of Porcelain by Bassett, Sara Ware

Hence you will find some china collectors calling it Henri Deux ware, and others speaking of it as Faience d'Orion; while still others refer to it as Saint Porchaire.

From The Story of Porcelain by Bassett, Sara Ware

Faience, fā′y�ns, n. a fine kind of pottery, glazed and painted.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

An additional chapter deals with Copenhagen Faience, which has qualities of its own appealing to connoisseurs.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella

Della Robbia, about 1415, succeeded in colouring his tin glazes, and his finely modelled but somewhat crudely coloured reliefs usher in the era of Italian Faience.

From Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers by Cox, George J.