Faience is supposed to be the precursor of ancient glass.Studies on Chinese faience are of help in understanding the origin and development of Chinese ancient glass.In this paper

non-destructive methods of SR-μCT

XRD and EDXRF are used to analyze a faience bead from Peng state in Western Zhou period(BC1046-BC771).The results show that the bead body is composed of micro quartz particles

and the body is denser than that of Western faience.The manufacture procedure can be deduced as follows:based on a cylinder core

the quartz particles were piled to form the body

which was then glazed and heated;after that the core was stripped.This technology was influenced by the bronze and protoporcelain production.Micro CT has great potential to study microstructure of ancient faience.