Dictionary entry
Stoneware
Pronunciation: /ˈstəʊnwɛː/
Pronunciation
/ˈstəʊnwɛː/
Myanmar Meaning
ရေမဝင်နိုင်သည့် ကြွေထည်မြေထည်။
Definition
stoneware /'stǝƱnweǝ(r) / n [U] စဥ့္အိုးခြက္ပန္းကန္။ stoneware jars.
Examples
- ‘The carry a top selection in home baking
- bread
- cakes
- gluten free products
- jams and preserves
- free range eggs
- bedding plants
- organically grown vegetables and stoneware pottery.’
- ‘There are pots and pans to hand-built pieces and sculptures in stoneware pottery.’
- ‘Although light in weight and less prone to chipping than delftware
- this new refined earthenware was still not as durable as white salt-glazed stoneware.’
- ‘According to material
- methods of production
- and finish
- pottery can be classified in three categories - earthenware
- stoneware
- and porcelain.’
- ‘The stoneware piece is made from fired ceramic clay
- glazed and gilded in 23-carat gold.’
- ‘Even Chinese porcelain and German stoneware
- both present in the earliest settlements
- arrived aboard British ships.’
- ‘Even Doat's preferred ceramic mediums - porcelain and stoneware - embody his fascination with Chinese and Japanese art.’
- ‘Bell experimented successfully with a number of glazes and created a wide variety of forms in earthenware and stoneware.’
- ‘They make stoneware
- porcelain and ‘raku’ at the pottery
- using simple ingredients such as Dorset clay ball
- Devon china clay
- local sand
- granite from Cornwall
- feldspars
- limestone and basalt from Somerset.’
- ‘While ceramics
- stoneware and porcelain are the most frequently used materials
- artists have also crafted vessels from wood
- metal
- glass
- plastic
- crystal
- fiber
- beading and recycled materials.’
- ‘Well Maria was saying to Juanita just this morning that her favorite stoneware crock had fallen and spilled flour all over the floor.’
- ‘The majority of work is stoneware and porcelain tableware.’
- ‘She said the secret to their success was using loose-leaf tea brewed in brown Chatsford stoneware pots and served in bone china cups and saucers.’
- ‘He expresses his creativity in porcelain and stoneware and also uses the ancient Japanese art of Raku.’
- ‘The company has been buying much of its stoneware in China
- but its fine china is still manufactured at its own plants in Britain.’
- ‘Flanking the hearth is an assortment of nineteenth-century salt-glazed stoneware from New Jersey and New York.’
- ‘Visitors to the exhibition can find many North American porcelain
- stoneware and earthenware pieces
- with influences drawn from a variety of sources
- including nature
- society
- and history.’
- ‘These grandly baroque pieces in polished red stoneware are precursors of the white porcelain that was to follow in the 1730s and 40s.’
- ‘Unlike tin-glazed earthenware
- white salt-glazed stoneware was ideally suited to slip casting and press molding into intricate shapes
- and plaster of Paris greatly facilitated these processes.’
- ‘This was a school that looked to the ceramics of Picasso rather than the functional stoneware pottery of Bernard Leach.’