faience

• Here Reaching into his pocket, he tossed an object carelessly onto the table, where it landed with a solid thunk It was a scarab, one of the largest I had ever seen, formed of the greenish blue faience (a glassy paste) commonly used in ancient times. —  52316_ApeWhoGuardsTheBalance
• I bought an especially fine piece of fake Strasbourg faience, but pretty old. —  Paid and Loving Eyes - Lovejoy - Jonathan Gash
• I liked it because Strasbourg faience was copied right from the off. —  Paid and Loving Eyes - Lovejoy - Jonathan Gash
• It was jewelry, gold coin, faience, and ivory figurines by the thousand The nets that had once held the treasure to the walls had decayed over the centuries, and so every week or two a gem or coin would disengage from its neighbors and drift into the ship's central space. —  AnalogSFF,March2006
• These stone, faience and wooden pieces from burial sites before Tut's reign will give visitors a sense of what the burials of both royalty and the elite may have been like and what the Egyptians of that time considered essential for the afterlife. —  San Francisco Sentinel

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