faience tile

faïence tile

Glazed or unglazed ceramic tile which shows characteristic variations in the face, edges, and glaze that give a handicrafted, nonmechanical, decorative effect. Also see majolica.
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The Wazir Khan Mosque is such an architectural masterpiece which mesmerizes the onlooker with its majestic architecture and extensive faience tile work.
Wazir Khan Mosque:An architectural relic
The Flint Faience Tile Company had its origins in a meeting between Champion and Carl Bergmans, a Belgian ceramist working for the American Encaustic Tile Company in Zanesville, Ohio.
The first faience tiles were produced in a building at the AC Spark Plug complex at Harriet Street and Industrial Avenue in Flint.
The clay for faience tiles (and, later, unglazed vitreous tiles sold under the name "Vitrocraft") mostly came from northeastern Ohio, near Zanesville.
The art and science of Flint Faience Tile
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The glazed terracotta tiles - known as faience tiles - are an instantly recognisable feature of many London Underground stations, including South Kensington, Covent Garden and the former Euston Tube stations.
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The entire complex of the Blue Mosque covers an area of 7,000 square meters, including a courtyard, a ritual building, a dome and a minaret, paved with decorative faience tiles. The minaret of 24 meters high in the southeastern part of the mosque is the only one preserved out of the four original minarets.
Armenia tries to present Azerbaijanis' Blue Mosque as Iranian
The entrance hall, the arcaded clerks' and accountant's offices and the first-floor corridor, with other ancillary rooms, are all faced in faience tiles supplied by Burmantofts, mainly in turquoise, buff and pale yellow, with a fine Newcastle Breweries logo panel.
When students' eyes wandered, they were met with grandeur; Heritage
Many of the cinema's original features remain, such as the cream and black faience tiles, metal windows, rubb er flooring dating from the 1930s, and an almost unaltered projection room
Listing means cinema is star in its own right
It is a structure of great power and apparent simplicity, enlivened by a minutiae of intricate and exquisite detail, such as the 11th century wooden panels of the Minbar or pulpit, delicately carved in relief; or the 30 plaques of iridescent faience tiles -- brought from Baghdad in the Ninth Century -- surrounding the Mihrab or niche facing towards Makkah, which is sculpted from marble.
An ancient oasis
Named after the artist, Jean-Pierre Raynaud, it is crowned by a suspended vault of white faience tiles bearing a radiation symbol.
Trojan horse
Lot n 8: Faience tiles. - insulation under screed, screed, porcelain stoneware tiles with skirting boards according to localization, earthenware according to localizations.
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