Sentence examples for earthenware jar from inspiring English sources

The wonderfully suggestive central poetic image is a mango ripening slowly in a closed earthenware jar.

The African contribution is evident in pots such as the stunning black earthenware jar with bulls stylized to near abstraction.

They were discovered in 1945 by an Arab peasant in Upper Egypt — 13 papyrus books, bound in leather, inside an earthenware jar, almost a meter high.

While digging near the village of Nag Hammadi for sabakh, a soft soil used as fertilizer, Muhammad Ali found a red earthenware jar.

Décor includes a 40-inch-tall earthenware jar shipped from Japan and sculptures in which newspaper clippings about the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 treaty on climate change, have been affixed to turquoise ceramic.

There were tales about Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; about a Chinese uncle who drowned in an earthenware jar; and about a flatulent lieutenant in the Boer War who nearly capsizes a formal dinner party.

His wife, Margaret, made and sold jams in earthenware jars.

The intact cabbages are then placed in earthenware jars and buried in the ground.

Such was evidently not the case with the earthenware jars of the Naqada I period.

Karate practitioners strengthened their fingers by clutching the rims of earthenware jars and lifting them.

Display cases are again piled with copper reliquaries, brass ewers, iridescent earthenware jars and bronze reliefs of biblical scenes.