Talk:Egyptian faience

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 * This deleted text, while unreferenced, looks quite sensible to me. Is there a copyright violation or something?--Wetman (talk) 06:11, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

No, Faience is not "more correctly defined as Egyptian faience." This article needs an opening statement of what Egyptian faience actually is, and an explanation of how the term faience has been extended to cover it. Without such a head, the article is running about like a chicken at the poultry shop. The former statement was
 * "Egyptian faience is an extension of the term faience. Faience describes Islamic and European tin-glazed earthenware, and has been extended to describe the ceramic faience of pre-Dynastic (cf. the Badarian and Naqada periods) and Pharaonic Egypt, Crete and sites in the Indus Valley civilization."

That seemsed sensible, did it not? --Wetman (talk) 21:17, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Egyptian faience today
Is Egyptian faience still made today? One can easily buy any quantity of lustrous glazed blue beads, in many shapes including scarabs, from Egyptian handcraft dealers. Are these Egyptian faience, or not? yoyo (talk) 13:37, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
 * If they are, surely it would be possible for researchers to examine the modern methods of manufacture and compare them to all their many hypotheses. Doing so might shed some light on the ancient artefacts and materials.
 * If not, it would be useful information for anybody trying to learn more about the antique material to know exactly:
 * 1) what the modern replicas are made of,
 * 2) how they're made, and
 * 3) how they differ from Egyptian faience.