From about 1755, Paul-Louis Cyfflé modeled figures in a body called terre de pipe (sometimes called terre-de-Lorraine), a soft white earthenware that is a kind of unglazed faience fine with a superficial resemblance to biscuit, or unglazed, porcelain.
"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".
I like a worn copper fait-tout and the soft lines and glaze of earthenware.
While digging near the village of Nag Hammadi for sabakh, a soft soil used as fertilizer, Muhammad Ali found a red earthenware jar.
Several appetizers were auspicious, notably fresh tuna ceviche (diced fresh tuna marinated in lemon juice, red onions and olive oil) and polenta a la Brigada (two large soft squares baked with fresh mushrooms and Italian sausage slices in an earthenware casserole).
"Probably a thousand," Standefer added: soft-paste porcelain ones painted with floral designs or pastoral scenes; hobbit-y earthenware ones with knobby spouts; a silver-plated "Bachelor" model from 1815; a black-and-white one from the seventeen-sixties with a surprisingly modern pattern.
There are surprising techniques such as steaming pressed mandarin oranges before they're slow-cooked in sugar — a process that yields luminous, silky Teochew orange "cakes". White radishes are stored in earthenware vessels for up to two decades, acquiring a jet-black hue and a unique soft-crunchy texture treasured by locals.
They are glazed earthenware.
"This is actually not earthenware.
Fragments of earthenware and pottery.
