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‖ rosso antico|ˈrosso ˈantiko|
[It., lit. ‘ancient red’.]
1. The name given by Josiah Wedgwood (see Wedgwood) to the red stoneware produced at his Staffordshire factories.
1776J. Wedgwood Let. 3 Mar. (1903) II. 163, I am afraid we shall never be able to make the Rosso Antico otherwise than to put you in mind of a red-Pot-Teapot. 1875E. Meteyard Wedgwood Handbk. 28 Wedgwood made much red ware from the same Bradwell-wood clay as that used by Elers, only he glazed the insides of his vessels. Some of Wedgwood's earliest portrait medallions and bas-reliefs were in rosso antico, but the results were not satisfactory. 1976Times 7 Dec. 16/3 The same American bidder paid {pstlg}1,000..for a Wedgwood rosso antico pot-pourri vase of 1805.
2. A rich red marble found in Italy, and employed as a decoration. Also attrib. or as adj.
1816J. Dallaway Of Stat. & Sculpt. 248 That [sc. the marble] of Lybia, is called, by the present antiquaries, ‘rosso antico’: of this marble there is no known quarry. 1848Mill Pol. Econ. I. iii. iv. 552 The materials of many of the ornamental articles manufactured in Italy are the substances called rosso, giallo, and verde antico. 1863Lytton Caxtoniana II. 15 The columns of its lofty portico were of the rosso antico marble. 1882Athenæum 30 Dec. 906/1 The material altogether Tuscan, the white marble having been brought from Serravezza, the red (like a fine rosso antico) from the neighbourhood of Siena. 1969Listener 16 Jan. 79/1 Of marbles I have found cipollino, pavonazzetto, giallo and rosso antico, but no harder materials such as porphyry or serpentine. |