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▪ I. red ware1 Sc.
[See ware n.]
A kind of seaweed, Laminaria digitata; common tangle.
1806P. Neill Tour Orkney & Shet. 29 On deep shores..great quantities of red-ware or sea-girdles (F. digitatus) are collected with long hooks at low water. 1808Forsyth Beauties Scotl. V. 155 In Loch Erriboll..red-ware, or sea⁓weed is produced in such quantity as to afford yearly ten or twelve tons of Kelp.
b. attrib., as red-ware cod or codling, a small brownish cod found among seaweed; red-ware fishick, the rockling or whistle-fish.
1707Sibbald Fife 52 Osellus varius vel striatus Shonfeldii, the Redware Codling. 1805G. Barry Orkney Isl. 289 The Wrasse..is very often found in company with what we call the red-ware cod. Ibid. 292 The Whistle Fish (gadus mustela..) or, as it is here named, the red-ware fishick, is a species very often found under the stones among the sea-weed.
▪ II. red ware2
A coarse kind of unglazed pottery. Also, a type of fine, glazed pottery. Also attrib. as red-ware potter, red ware pottery.
1699M. Lister Journey to Paris 139 As for the Red Ware of China, that has been and is done in England, to a far greater perfection than in China, we having as good Materials. [1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVII. 810/1 The coarse yellow, red, black, and mottled wares.] 1832G. R. Porter Porcelain & Gl. 41 The oxide of iron, when present in any sensible degree, renders the clay unfit for all purposes, except that of forming the common red ware. 1852Hist. Co. Oxford 856 Leafield has been noted for some time for its red-ware pottery. 1885Census Instruct. 88 Red Ware Potter. 1934Discovery June 166/2 Plain burnished red ware. 1959Chambers's Encycl. XI. 137/2 Unglazed red⁓ware was made till about 1770... Thomas Astbury (1688–1743) is supposed to have been the first to glaze this finely potted red ware and to decorate it with pads of white clay stamped in patterns. 1965E. Tunis Colonial Craftsmen v. 121 Redware as it came from firing was no harder than a modern flowerpot and it was just as porous. To make it useful, the potters glazed it. 1975Country Life 26 June (Suppl.) 56/2 Christie's... Fine English Porcelain and Pottery..Astbury glazed redware..bell-shaped mug. 1977New Hampshire Times 27 July 17/2 The potter had only one type of clay available, the local glacial clay underlying most of the coastal area. This clay fires in a kiln to a red color and therefore is called redware. Redware collapses past a certain firing temperature. |