Faience
Archaeological Evidence for Glassworking, Guidelines for Recovering, Analysing and Interpreting Evidence, published by Historic England in 2018, defines faience as: ‘Made by shaping a moist paste of crushed quartz or sand, mixed with fluxes and a colourant, followed by firing. Faience has a glassy surface but the inside is pale and opaque because it contains numerous quartz grains. Faience predates glass and was commonly used for beads.’
Short Guide, Scottish traditional shopfronts, published, on 18 April 2017 by Historic Environment Scotland, defines faience as: ‘A type of terracotta which comes in a variety of glazes and sizes. It may be structural or used as cladding. Sometimes used in the construction of shopfronts and popular as a facing for buildings in the 1930s.’
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