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Porcelain vs Faience - What's the difference?

porcelain | faience |

As nouns the difference between porcelain and faience

is that porcelain is a hard, white, translucent ceramic that is made by firing kaolin and other materials; china while faience is a type of tin-glazed earthenware ceramic.

porcelain

English

Noun

(wikipedia porcelain)
  • (usually, uncountable) A hard, white, translucent ceramic that is made by firing kaolin and other materials; china.
  • (usually, countable) Anything manufactured from this material..

    • Derived terms

    * ivory porcelain * porcelain clay * porcelain crab * porcelain jasper * porcelain printing * porcelain shell * porcelaneous

    References

    * Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[http://www.studiopotter.org/articles/?art=art0001]

    faience

    English

    (wikipedia faience)

    Alternative forms

    * fayence

    Noun

  • A type of tin-glazed earthenware ceramic.
  • *1886 , , The Bostonians .
  • *:If she had wondered what Mrs. Burrage wished so particularly to talk about, she waited some time for the clearing-up of the mystery. During this interval she sat in a remarkably pretty boudoir, where there were flowers and faiences and little French pictures, and watched her hostess revolve round the subject in circles the vagueness of which she tried to dissimulate.

    • References

    * Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[http://www.studiopotter.org/articles/?art=art0001] (etymology) *

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