Faience of La Rochelle with Chinese figures, 18th century.

File: La Rochelle Faience de grand feu with Chinese manganese motif 18th century. jpg | La Rochelle faience, 18th century.

File: La Rochelle Faience de grand feu plate with Chinese decorations 18th century. jpg | La Rochelle faience with Chinese decorations.

File: La Rochelle Faience de grand feu pot with Chinese decorations 18th century. jpg | La Rochelle faience pot, 18th century.

Faience or faïence ( or, ) is the conventional name in English for fine tin-glazed pottery on a delicate pale buff earthenware body, originally associated with Faenza in northern Italy.

File: Astor Place IRT 004 crop. jpg | Faience plaque with beaver, by Heins & LaFarge / Grueby Faience Company, 1904.

Faience vases in the shape of the goddess " provided with a small pouring hole at the nipple, were sometimes used to serve milk, presumably in an attempt to invoke extra divine potency into the liquid.

File: Faience vessel with Bes. jpg | Faience vessel, Bes holding Eyes

Faience material, for instance, has been recovered from the Knossos archaeological site.

It has green faience plaques and mosaic name tablets by Heins & LaFarge / Grueby Faience Company from 1904.

Image: Faience Plate Garofano. jpg | A modern plate from Faenza, adapting a traditional Japanese design.

It seems that the people of Kerma developed faience technologies independently of Egypt ( Julian Henderson, The Science & Archaeology of Materials, London: ROutledge 200: 54 ), and were manufacturing unusual new crafts such as glazed quartzite, faience pots and architectural inlays ( W SS, ' Glazed Faience Tiles found at Kerma in the Sudan ,' Museum of the Fine Arts, Vol. LX: 322, Boston 1962, p. 136 ; Peter Lacovara, ' Nubian Faience ', in ed.

Studio pottery — exemplified by the Grueby Faience Company, Newcomb Pottery in New Orleans, Marblehead Pottery, Teco pottery, Overbeck and Rookwood pottery and Mary Chase Perry Stratton's Pewabic Pottery in Detroit, as well as the art tiles made by Ernest A. Batchelder in Pasadena, California, and idiosyncratic furniture of Charles Rohlfs all demonstrate the influence of Arts and Crafts.

Crystal Farms ( website ), Ephraim Faience Pottery, Hamlin Inc ( website ), Lewis Station Winery ( website ), Aztalan Engineering ( website ) Obsession Telescopes, Oskri Organics ( website ), and Tyranena Brewing Company ( website ) are based in Lake Mills.

, “ The Late Bronze Egyptian Garrison at Beth Shan: Glass and Faience Production and Importation in the Late New Kingdom ”, BASOR 290-91 ( 1993 ), pp. 1 – 27.

Faience that was produced in ancient Egyptian antiquity as early as 3500 BC was in fact superior to the tin-glazed earthenware of the European 15th century.

By this time Bing was the primary European dealer for the Rookwood Pottery Co. of Cincinnati and the Grueby Faience Company of Boston, as well as the wares of Tiffany.

The plaques, as well as name tablets, were made by the Grueby Faience Company in 1904.

File: Astor Place IRT 006. JPG | Faience name tablet by Heins & LaFarge / Grueby Faience Company, 1904.

The problem of efficient production in textiles is complicated by the fact that the industry serves large markets which shift quickly with changes of fashion in apparel or home decoration.

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The only man alive who seems qualified by his learning, his disposition and his addiction to a baroque luxuriance of language to inherit the literary mantle of Sacheverell Sitwell, Mr. Sansom writes of foreign parts with a dedication to decoration worthy of a pastry chef creating a wedding cake for the marriage of a Hungarian beauty ( her third ) and an American multimillionaire ( his fourth ).

In front of the large windows, as if they were pillars that support the complex stone structure, there are six fine columns that seem to simulate the bones of a limb, with an apparent central articulation ; in fact, this is a floral decoration.

File: KofunCuirass. jpg | Early Japanese armour, iron helmet and cuirass with gilt bronze decoration, Kofun period, 5th century.

Familiarity with the sea is proved by the free use of marine motifs in decoration.

Vases of all kinds, carved in marble or other stones, cast or beaten in metals or fashioned in clay, the latter in enormous number and variety, richly ornamented with coloured schemes, and sometimes bearing moulded decoration.

Andreas Schlüter ( 20 May 1664 – May 1714 ) was a German baroque sculptor and architect associated with the Petrine Baroque style of architecture and decoration.

The television, film, book, costume, home decoration, and confectionery industries use this time of year to promote products closely associated with such a holiday, with promotions going from early September to 31 October, since their themes rapidly lose strength once the holiday ends, and advertising starts concentrating on Christmas.

Bubbles engaged in many aspects of the group's visual identity, titling releases and designing posters, adverts, stage decoration and performance plans, some of which were adorned with mystical and mock-Teutonic insignia.

Officers from the other federal uniformed services are also eligible to receive the decoration if they are militarized or detailed to serve with a service branch of the Armed Forces.

Similarly those of the Palatine Chapel, the Martorana at Palermo, and the cathedral of Cefalù, together with the vast decoration of the cathedral at Monreale, demonstrate the influence of Byzantium on the Norman Court of Sicily in the twelfth century.

Columns, or at least large structural exterior ones, became much less significant in the architecture of the Middle Ages, and the classical forms were abandoned in both Byzantine architecture and the Romanesque and Gothic architecture or Europe in favour of more flexible forms, with capitals often using various types of foliage decoration, and in the West scenes with figures carved in relief.

high, covered with repouss decoration of figures, etc.

A flag is usually a piece of fabric with a distinctive design that is usually rectangular and used as a symbol, as a signaling device, or decoration.

A garden's decoration with the appropriate accessories also adds personality and beauty, and depending on the situation, the decoration chosen will provide functionality to the garden.

When Renaissance artists such as Pinturicchio, Raphael, Michelangelo, Ghirlandaio or Filippino Lippi descended into the ruins of Nero's Domus Aurea, they carved or painted their names and returned with the grottesche style of decoration.

A person buried at the Maritime Archaic site at Port au Choix, Newfoundland, dating to about 2000 BC, was found surrounded by more than 200 Great Auk beaks, which are believed to have been part of a suit made from their skins, with the heads left attached as decoration.

The building is in the Beaux arts style, an interpretation of Renaissance Classicism incorporating Italianate styles with a vast range of ornate decoration, used to express the wealth and industrial export-led economic prosperity of the Second City of the Empire.

Red pottery with red and black slip-painted decoration, 4 15 / 16 x 6 1 / 8 in.

Yarmukian Culture | Yarmukian pottery with fishbone decoration

Wedgwood's company is still a famous name in pottery today ( as part of Waterford Wedgwood ; see Waterford Crystal ), and " Wedgwood China " is sometimes used as a term for his Jasperware, the coloured stoneware with applied relief decoration ( usually white ), still common throughout the world.