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Categories: Egyptian inventions, Types of pottery decoration, History of glass, Pottery, Glass compositions
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Egyptian faience  Ancient Egyptian faience  Tjehenet
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Egyptian faience is a sintered-quartz ceramic material from Ancient Egypt. The sintering process "covered [the material] with a true vitreous coating" as the quartz underwent vitrification, creating a bright lustre of various colours "usually in a transparent blue or green isotropic glass". Wikipedia
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Egyptian faience is a sintered-quartz ceramic material from Ancient Egypt. The sintering process "covered [the material] with a true vitreous coating" as the quartz underwent vitrification, creating a bright lustre of various colours "usually in a transparent blue or green isotropic glass". Wikipedia
Type of Ancient Egyptian sintered-quartz ceramic Wikidata
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glaze
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faience
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Egyptian faience
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Ancient Egyptian faience, Tjehenet

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