faïence

n. type of colorfully decorated pottery

For the architectural material, see Glazed architectural terra-cotta. For the ceramics of Ancient Egypt and the Indus Valley, see Egyptian faience Faience or faïence is the conventional name in English for fine tin-glazed pottery on a delicate pale buff body.The invention of a pottery glaze suitable for painted decoration, by the addition of an oxide of tin to the slip of a lead glaze, was a major advance in the history of pottery. The invention seems to have been made in Iran or the Middle East before the ninth century, and there have even been records of the invention as far back as 1200 B.C.E. These discoveries were made in Knossos, Crete in the form of foot-tall Snake Goddess statuettes. A kiln capable of producing temperatures exceeding 1000°C   was required to achieve this result (see pottery), the result of millennia of refined pottery-making traditions.
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adj. faience

n. earthenware, faience

n. faience, type of colorfully decorated pottery

Noun
1. glazed earthenware decorated with opaque colors
(hypernym) earthenware