ceramics vs faience

ceramics

noun
  • The art or science of making ceramic objects. 

  • Ceramic objects as a group. 

faience

noun
  • A type of tin-glazed earthenware ceramic. 

  • The beads and small ornaments of the eastern Mediterranean. (Of bronze and iron age manufacture using frit technology.) 

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