Faience

Faience is a high quality ceramic that can be dated back to the Egyptians. Although Faience is correlated with tin earthenware giving it a white color, the Egyptians famously decorated the tomb walls beneath the pyramids with this blue ceramic. The ceramic also signifies the advancement of early civilizations because its process requires kiln that can take over 1000 degrees Fahrenheit. It was also used it as a form of ceramic jewelry: The word is used in //Absalom, Absalom!// to describe the inhuman, forged nature to Sutpen's face.

//Your grandfather said that some of the faience appearance which the flesh of his face had had when he came to town five ears ago was gone now and that his face had an honest sunburn// (AA! 36).