Faenza is noted for its manufacture of majolica ware glazed earthenware pottery, known from the name of the town as " faience ".

As a testament to the popularity of the city's majolica through the ages, on August 18, 2006, Quebec Premier Jean Charest announced that Canadian archaeologists had discovered the precise location of Canada's lost first colony of Charlesbourg-Royal, and that a fragment of a decorative Istoriato plate manufactured in Faenza between 1540 and 1550 was found there that could only have belonged to a member of the French aristocracy in the colony.

It includes the Galliani Polyptych by Alberto Piazza ( 1520 ), and has, on the façade, a rose window decorated with polychrome majolica.

On the floor are the remains of 16th-century majolica.

It has one of the best collections of Pre-Raphaelite paintings, majolica pottery and English silver.

Its contents include a 16th-century refectory table, an oak escritoire from about 1650, and items of Wedgwood majolica ware made in about 1830.

The Italian Renaissance exposition continues in the eastern wing of the New Hermitage with paintings, sculpture, majolica and tapestry from Italy of the 15th – 16th centuries, including Conestabile Madonna and Madonna with Beardless St. Joseph by Raphael.

The church of Santa Maria Assunta features a dome made of majolica tiles as well as a 13th century Byzantine icon of a black Madonna.

The entrance hall " was filled with a curious display of cactus plants in majolica pots.

The upper part, octagonal in plan, with small Romanesque arches with majolica decoration, was completed in 1279.

The great name in Urbino majolica was that of Nicolo Pillipario's son Guido Fontana.

The name faience is simply the French name for Faenza, in the Romagna near Ravenna, Italy, where a painted majolica ware on a clean, opaque pure-white ground, was produced for export as early as the fifteenth century.

In 1966 Mark Gambier-Parry bequeathed the diverse collection of art formed by his grandfather, Thomas Gambier Parry, which ranged from Early Italian Renaissance painting to majolica, medieval enamel and ivory carvings and other unusual art forms.

To the left of the altar is the baptismal font on a stand filled with Carrara marble which contains a majolica bowl for the holy water.

Some writers have supposed that this piece of fine white pottery was a piece of the enamelled majolica of Italy, but such a theory will hardly bear examination.

Later he became interested in the theory and history of art, building up important collections of majolica earthenware and paintings.

seigneurial chairs at a table with tin cutlery, pottery, medieval glass and earthenware in majolica, c. 1465

The tin-glazed earthenware, at least prior to 1650, were of the majolica variety and not the delft.

:* Victorian majolica – brightly coloured earthenware pottery with a clear lead glaze.

The ground-floor sitting-room, decorated with blue majolica and white ceramic, overlooks the Gulf of Naples.

The brick campanile, in Gothic-Romanesque-style, has small columns with little pointed arches and Islamic majolica in the walls.

The historic production of Faenza majolica is recognized worldwide as one of the highest moments of artistic creativity expressed through pottery.

In September and October international contemporary and classical ceramic art events draw majolica amateurs, collectors and artists to Faenza from all over the world.

Coins of 1, 2, 4 and 8 reales cobs or crushed calls were made in silver and transported on ships to Panama and from there to the Caribbean to be transported to Europe, fragments of silver cutlery and plates and pottery known as majolica bars, tin, silver, cannonballs both bronze and iron and lead for muskets.

Diego Velázquez portrayed an old woman poaching eggs in a glazed earthenware chafing dish over charcoal

The facings were often glazed in different colors and may have had astrological significance.

Kings sometimes had their names engraved on these glazed bricks.

It is expected that if the site were inhabited during the early medieval period, then 1 % of the pottery would be glazed and 50 % of its area decorated, whereas if it had been inhabited in the late medieval period then 81 % would be glazed and 5 % of its area decorated.

The facings were often glazed in different colors and may have had astrological significance.

Kings sometimes had their names engraved on these glazed bricks.

The facings were often glazed in different colors and may have had astrological significance.

Kings sometimes had their names engraved on these glazed bricks.

In 1863, when the building had become a reading-room of the Bodleian, the arches were glazed, a new entrance was created on the north side in place of a circular window, with stone steps leading up to the entrance.

And Stow tells us that the steeple had five lanterns ; to wit, one at each corner, and ' It seemeth that the lanterns on the top of this steeple were meant to have been glazed, and lights in them to have been placed nightly in the winter ; whereby travellers to the city might have the better sight thereof, and not miss their way.

The window's tracery has disappeared, as has its sill, but from the stubs and surviving fragments it can be deduced that it had seven major lights ( the glazed openings in the window ).

Although proto-porcelain wares exist dating from the Shang Dynasty ( 1600 – 1046 BCE ), by the Eastern Han Dynasty period ( 196 – 220 ) glazed ceramic wares had developed into porcelain.

Understanding the possibilities, he had a carpenter build him a closely fitted glazed wooden case and found that ferns grown in it thrived.

Many other improvements were made to Lagentium, including straight metalled roads, rectangular stone buildings with tiled roofs and glazed windows ; the houses had drains and sometimes central heating.

In 1930 he discovered shards at the site of the ruins of an ogama style kiln at Mutabora proving that that Shino and Oribe glazed work of the Momoyama and early Edo period in Japan had been manufactured in Mino rather than in the Seto area.

This grand residence had four huge reception rooms which could be interconnected depending on the size of event, allegedly 60 rooms ( counting small dressing rooms as well as proper rooms ) and a glazed cupola rising to 70 feet above ground.

Originally named Highgate ( although Archway Tavern had been proposed ) the Leslie Green designed station opened on 22 June 1907 and faced in Green's standard ox-blood glazed brick.

An 1841 inventory for Mr. Sutter describes the settlement surrounding the fort: " twenty-four planked dwellings with glazed windows, a floor and a ceiling ; each had a garden.

The prefabricated two-story building was covered with around 55 tons of expanded cork agglomerate and with hand-made glazed tiles on the patio and had a double glass fibre canvas membrane roof.

All houses, including farmhouses and cottages by then, had glazed windows, with lead glazing bars.

In Japan, this fastback wagon was a special model called the Sunny California, aimed at private buyers unlike the square-backed 3-and 5-door Sunny Van ( although for the Japanese market these vans were always fully glazed and usually had a back seat ) meant for the long-standing Japanese commercial wagon market.

It had strikingly angular styling, with an unusual glazed C-pillar on the 5-door.

* Boal de Abajo ( Lower Boal ): it has grown along the AS-12 road ( Melquiades Álvarez Street and Isidoro Fontana Street ) and the Rosalía de la Cruz Street, hosting some interesting examples of the architecture of those emigrants who had made fortune in the Americas, among which we can stress the Casa de Damiana ( 1919 ) and, already on the road out of the village in direction to Grandas de Salime, Villa Anita ( 1926 ), decorated with glazed tiles in all its façades.

The orangery at Dyrham Park, Gloucestershire, which had been provided with a slate roof as originally built about 1702, was given a glazed one about a hundred years later, after Humphrey Repton remarked that it was dark ; though it was built to shelter oranges, it has always simply been called the " greenhouse " in modern times.