Sentence examples for red earthenware from inspiring English sources
A red earthenware covered jar, with ridged and incised, glaze-daubed horizontal bands, would meet anyone's daily requirement of beauty.
Several potters, the best known of whom is Ari de Milde, made teapots of red earthenware in imitation of the wine pots of I-hsing.
While digging near the village of Nag Hammadi for sabakh, a soft soil used as fertilizer, Muhammad Ali found a red earthenware jar.
All of the 497,000kg of clay used for the project – a slightly sanded, red earthenware – was supplied or sourced by the Etruria-based Potclays company.
Establishing a factory at Shelton in the early 18th century, he succeeded in producing yellowish-glazed red earthenware decorated with bits of white pipe clay (which he was the first to import from Devonshire); his mode of decorating with such appliqués is called sprigging.
"It was a scene to sicken for with a sort of calenture in hot and dusty streets — such coolness, such purity, such fresh fragrance of new-pressed cheese, of firm butter, of wooden vessels perpetually bathed in pure water; such soft colouring of red earthenware and creamy surfaces, brown wood and polished tin, grey limestone and rich orange-red rust on the iron weights and hooks and hinges".
Būyid pottery, usually called Gabrī ware, is a red-bodied earthenware covered with a white slip (liquified clay washed over the body before firing).
Astbury's red or buff earthenware was ornamented by white relief ships, figures, and fortifications.
At Nukuleka in the past, archaeologists have relied on radiocarbon dates of wood associated with distinctive Lapita earthenware pottery: the red, stamped ceramics left behind by the first seafarers, who swept out of Southeast Asia and into Polynesia.
Other standouts include a mid-sixth-century earthenware horse groom wearing a red coat and a suspicious expression, and an imposing Eastern Zhou bronze vessel known as a hu, whose distinctive decorations include bands of sharp, toothlike triangles.
