| 单词 | medici china |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMedici china a. attributive. Designating a type of soft-paste porcelain produced in Florence under the patronage of Francesco de' Medici in the late 16th cent., esp. in Medici porcelain, Medici china. Also: designating an article made of this. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > porcelain > other European porcelain Vienna1774 Buen Retiro1863 Ludwigsburg1863 Meissen1863 Medici porcelain1868 1868 J. Marryat Hist. Pottery & Porcelain (ed. 3) xiv. 456 (caption) Brocca of Medici Porcelain, 15 inches high. 1900 F. Litchfield Pottery & Porcelain ii. 18 It was of soft paste, is extremely rare, and is known as ‘Medici china’. 1940 Burlington Mag. May p. x/2 A ‘Medici’ plate, marked with the letter F and the dome of the Cathedral of Florence. 1960 R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Continental Pottery & Porcelain 306/1 With one exception, all the known pieces of Medici porcelain are painted in blue, or blue and manganese purple. 1973 Times 3 Nov. 2/2 A Parke Bernet expert called in to look over what was there found the Medici bowl in a cupboard under a broken Orvieto dish. 1974 G. Savage & H. Newman Illustr. Dict. Ceramics 190 Medici porcelain is made with a white clay and a frit the composition of which is hardly distinguishable from powdered glass. 1990 Oxf. Illustr. Encycl. (1993) V. 361/4 Medici porcelain is extremely rare; only about sixty pieces are known, but they include the earliest surviving examples of porcelain (soft-paste) produced in Europe. < as lemmas |
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