"delicate porcelain" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to something fragile, beautiful, and expensive-looking, such as a china plate. For example, "The table was adorned with a delicate porcelain plate." You could also use it to describe a person with fragile features, such as "She had a delicate porcelain face."
It will be served from a silver pot into a delicate porcelain cup.
Employees, though, are as cautious with their hopes as they are with the delicate porcelain.
They include glazed cast-iron pans and teapots, vintage lacquerware and delicate porcelain tableware.
The Nazis stole them in short order, as they also seized Ferdinand's entire art collection, his delicate porcelain and his sugar refinery.
During a visit early last year, a long display table in the front room showcased an eccentric arrangement of objects that included bottles of schnapps, hand-knit striped knee-high cashmere socks and delicate porcelain flowers.
With her pale red hair, delicate porcelain features and a body so slim and small it could pass for 13, Lucy looks like a character out of Grimm or Perrault, the young virgin waiting to be awakened.
He is now becoming known for a series of sleek shallow shelving units — large or small in black or white — arrayed irregularly with anywhere from 6 to nearly 500 small delicate cylindrical porcelain vessels, also black or white.
His many poems about objects suggest how hard-won the ordinary seems, visible only through the scrim of his psychologizing imagination: With a sigh the elevators begin to rise in high blocks delicate as porcelain.
Jonathan Yun's atelier/showroom is filled with his exquisite, sculptural gold and silver jewellery and, round the corner, Bon Ton The Shop is an is an Aladdin's cave of silk sarongs, delicate Chinese porcelain and antique posters.
The artists include Byung-Hoon Choi, who hand-carves and sands stacked laminated red oak to make soft, curvaceous side tables ($50,000 for the pair), above; Jin Jang, who creates delicate, luminous porcelain bowls perforated with tiny holes ($2,000); and Hun-Chung Lee, who makes ceramic stools with glazed surfaces and gently rounded edges ($9,000).
A boutique called Forty Five Ten (4510 McKinney Avenue) is a modish little all-purpose stop — if your purpose is to acquire, say, a Gregory Parkinson crocheted cotton twinset in bright red and yellow ($535), a delicate white porcelain dish ($295), a wrought-iron candelabra that looks like and is as big as a small tree ($1,410), or a chicken-salad panini at the café ($11).
