Dictionary entry

Stoneware

Pronunciation: /ˈstəʊnwɛː/

Pronunciation

/ˈstəʊnwɛː/

Myanmar Meaning

ရေမဝင်နိုင်သည့် ကြွေထည်မြေထည်။

Definition

stoneware /'stǝƱnweǝ(r) / n [U] စဥ့္အိုးခြက္ပန္းကန္။ stoneware jars.

Examples

  1. ‘The carry a top selection in home baking
  2. bread
  3. cakes
  4. gluten free products
  5. jams and preserves
  6. free range eggs
  7. bedding plants
  8. organically grown vegetables and stoneware pottery.’
  9. ‘There are pots and pans to hand-built pieces and sculptures in stoneware pottery.’
  10. ‘Although light in weight and less prone to chipping than delftware
  11. this new refined earthenware was still not as durable as white salt-glazed stoneware.’
  12. ‘According to material
  13. methods of production
  14. and finish
  15. pottery can be classified in three categories - earthenware
  16. stoneware
  17. and porcelain.’
  18. ‘The stoneware piece is made from fired ceramic clay
  19. glazed and gilded in 23-carat gold.’
  20. ‘Even Chinese porcelain and German stoneware
  21. both present in the earliest settlements
  22. arrived aboard British ships.’
  23. ‘Even Doat's preferred ceramic mediums - porcelain and stoneware - embody his fascination with Chinese and Japanese art.’
  24. ‘Bell experimented successfully with a number of glazes and created a wide variety of forms in earthenware and stoneware.’
  25. ‘They make stoneware
  26. porcelain and ‘raku’ at the pottery
  27. using simple ingredients such as Dorset clay ball
  28. Devon china clay
  29. local sand
  30. granite from Cornwall
  31. feldspars
  32. limestone and basalt from Somerset.’
  33. ‘While ceramics
  34. stoneware and porcelain are the most frequently used materials
  35. artists have also crafted vessels from wood
  36. metal
  37. glass
  38. plastic
  39. crystal
  40. fiber
  41. beading and recycled materials.’
  42. ‘Well Maria was saying to Juanita just this morning that her favorite stoneware crock had fallen and spilled flour all over the floor.’
  43. ‘The majority of work is stoneware and porcelain tableware.’
  44. ‘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.’
  45. ‘He expresses his creativity in porcelain and stoneware and also uses the ancient Japanese art of Raku.’
  46. ‘The company has been buying much of its stoneware in China
  47. but its fine china is still manufactured at its own plants in Britain.’
  48. ‘Flanking the hearth is an assortment of nineteenth-century salt-glazed stoneware from New Jersey and New York.’
  49. ‘Visitors to the exhibition can find many North American porcelain
  50. stoneware and earthenware pieces
  51. with influences drawn from a variety of sources
  52. including nature
  53. society
  54. and history.’
  55. ‘These grandly baroque pieces in polished red stoneware are precursors of the white porcelain that was to follow in the 1730s and 40s.’
  56. ‘Unlike tin-glazed earthenware
  57. white salt-glazed stoneware was ideally suited to slip casting and press molding into intricate shapes
  58. and plaster of Paris greatly facilitated these processes.’
  59. ‘This was a school that looked to the ceramics of Picasso rather than the functional stoneware pottery of Bernard Leach.’