单词 | faenza |
释义 | Faenzan. I. Compounds. 1. As a modifier. Designating pottery made in Faenza, esp. the tin-glazed ceramic ware for which the city became famous in the 16th century. Sometimes more generally: designating other ware similar to this in style or method of manufacture. ΚΠ 1669 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 4 974 They..fashion it almost after the same manner as the Italians do make their Faenza-dishes. 1842 Times 24 May Suppl. 9/2 Lot 81. A cistern of Faenza ware. 1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 627/2 Faenza plate (tondino), with border in deep ultramarine blues, and central coat of arms in rich orange and red. 1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 214/1 Faenza Ware, a distinctive term given to a fine sort of pottery originally made at Faenza near Bologna, in Italy. 1962 3rd Internat. Art Treasures Exhib. (Victoria & Albert Mus.) 76/1 A Faenza cylindrical drug vase with a band in the centre. 1999 Sunday Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 6 Nov. (Art section) 8/1 f The beautiful Faenza majolica dish made for Matthias Corvinus Hunyadi, King of Hungary. II. Simple uses. 2. Pottery made in Faenza, esp. the tin-glazed ceramic ware for which the city became famous in the 16th century. Sometimes more generally: other ware similar to this in style or method of manufacture. Cf. faience n., majolica n. 2. rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > Italian pottery Raphael ware1785 Della Robbia1805 majolica1820 maiolica1831 mezza-maiolica1850 terraglia1850 Faenza1856 Castel Durante1857 tondino1885 1856 Illustr. London News 31 May 602/1 Every Buhl cabinet and ornament of porcelain, from a Watteau group that might have belonged to Augustus the Strong to a cracked piece of Faenza. 1922 Evening World (N.Y.) 28 Nov. 15/5 (advt.) Italian Faenza in bright colors with scenes and figures, lovely pieces which suggest Renaissance Italy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < n.1669 |
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