"porcelain" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it as a noun to refer to a type of fine, delicate pottery, typically white with a glossy finish. For example, "This set of porcelain dishes is my favorite china pattern."
The crude black iron headrest sat heavily atop the cold-looking slab of white porcelain.
Some opt for simple clean-ups, for plaque and swollen gums, some have their ragged edges filed, some have plastic bonding to cover blemishes, some have gum-shield-style "invisible" braces with names such as Invisalign, some have porcelain veneers fused to their teeth.
Valencia has a tradition of small-scale companies making textiles, tiles and porcelain, often employing workers for cash wages.
Essentially a rocky love-story, it nevertheless takes in, like Zola or Thomas Mann, the impact of business, and even 80 years ago of globalisation, on the private lives of communities in Charente and Limoges making brandy and porcelain.
First shown carpeting the Turbine Hall at London's Tate Modern in autumn 2010, the installation is made up of 100m tiny handmade porcelain sculptures that look so much like seeds that visitors to the show were often tempted to bite them.
At Sotheby's, Mr Ai's 100kg of handmade porcelain sunflower seeds (pictured here), a domestic echo of the artist's monumental installation in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, sold for €417,004 ($568,250) to an anonymous buyer on the phone to Gregoire Billault, a contemporary specialist based in Paris.
He spent his earnings on houses, a stately home with 76 bedrooms, a Rolls Royce and fine porcelain.
The great imperial collections of Chinese jade, cloisonné and porcelain were kept in the Summer Palace in Beijing's Forbidden City and seen by only a chosen few.
Every detail attests to her eye, education and status as taste-maker extraordinary.France's role as an arts-and-luxury goods capital did not begin with Madame de Pompadour, but she was its most energetic ambassador and put its porcelain industry on the map.
Experts in rare coins, porcelain and other arcane areas have been laid off or turned into consultants.
Friends noticed, too, his fascination with terma, tiny texts in shell-like casings that were buried and dug up again to speak wisdom to later generations, and drew joking parallels with Joseph Smith's discovery of the Mormon golden tablets.The porcelain cupAmid the extraordinary complexity of his chosen subject, Mr Smith kept a childlike simplicity.
