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Faience or faïence is the conventional name in English for fine tin-glazed earthenware on a delicate pale buff body. The name is simply the French name for Faenza , in the Romagna near Ravenna, where a valued painted ware on a clean, opaque pure-white ground, called majolica , was produced for export as early as the fifteenth century. "Majolica" (or "maiolica") itself is a garbled version of "Maiorica", for the island of Majorca was a transhipping point for refined Spanish tin-glazed earthenwares being shipped to Italy from the kingdom of Aragon at the close of the Middle Ages, the Spanish pottery tradition itself a Moorish inheritance. Delftware is a kind of faience, made at potteries round Delft in Holland, characteristically decorated in blue on white, in imitation of the blue-and-white porcelain that began coming from ChinaThis article is on the geographic and cultural entity. For other meanings, see China (disambiguation). China ( Traditional Chinese: , Simplified Chinese: , Hanyu Pinyin: Zhongguo, Wade-Giles: Chung-kuo) is a country in continental East Asia with some oute from the early sixteenth century15th century 16th century 17th century more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. Events Beginning of the " Little Ice Age" a cooling period that resulted in lower crop yi, but quickly developing its own recognisably Dutch décor.

In France, centres of faience manufacturing developed from the early eighteenth century17th century 18th century 19th century more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701- 1800; however, historians will sometimes specifically refer to the 18th Century as 1715- 89, at RouenRouen (population 110,000) is a city situated on the Seine river in Normandy, northern France. Population of the metropolitan area (in French: aire urbaine at the 1999 census was 518,316. Administration Rouen is the prefecture ( capital) of the Seine-Mari, StrasbourgStrasbourg ( German Strassburg "castle of roads", Alsatian Strossburi is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region of northeastern France. It is the prefecture (capital) of the Bas-Rhin departement''. Population: 250,000. Population of the metro or QuimperQuimper Kemper in Breton) is a commune of northwestern France. Population (1999): 67,127. Its inhabitants are called quimperois''. Administration Quimper is the prefecture (capital) of the Finistere departement''. History The name Quimper comes from the B. This latter owns an interesting museum devoted to the faience.

The term "faience" has been extended to include finely-glazed ceramic beads found in ancient EgyptJumhuriyat Misr al-Arabiyah ( In Detail) Official language Arabic Capital Cairo Largest City Cairo President Hosni Mubarak Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif Area Total % water Ranked 29th 1,001,450 km² 0. 6% Population Total (2003) Density Ranked 15th 74,718,797 or in the Indus Valley CivilizationIndus River in present-day Pakistan. The Mohenjo-daro ruins pictured above were once the center of this ancient society. The Indus Valley Civilization 2800 BC 1800 BC, was an ancient civilization thriving along the Indus River in the northwest Indian subc.

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