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单词 nantgarw
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Nantgarwadj.n.

Brit. /ˌnantˈɡaruː/, U.S. /ˌnɑntˈɡɑru/
Forms: 1800s– Nantgarw, 1900s– Nant Garw.
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Nantgarw.
Etymology: < Nantgarw, the name of a village in Glamorgan, South Wales, where this porcelain was manufactured.The Nantgarw pottery was founded in 1813 by porcelain maker and painter William Billingsley (1758–1828: see quot. 1891 at sense B.) and his son-in-law Samuel Walker, who subsequently went into partnership with the porcelain painter William Weston Young (1776–1847: see quot. 1820 at sense A.). Porcelain manufacture continued in Nantgarw (except for a period of production in Swansea 1814–16) until 1820, when Billingsley and Walker left the concern, though existing unfinished stock was decorated at the pottery until it was sold in 1822.
A. adj.
Designating a kind of translucent soft-paste porcelain produced between 1813 and 1820 at the Nantgarw pottery in Wales.
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1820 W. W. Young Diary 28 Oct. in E. M. Nance Pottery & Porcelain Swansea & Nantgarw (1942) 524 Put Advertisement for the Nantgarw China in The Cambrian.
1874 New Q. Mag. 1 373 The painting has often a resemblance to that on Nantgarw porcelain.
1948 W. D. John Nantgarw Porcelain iii. 53 Two glazes were used on the Nantgarw porcelain.
1964 M. Kelly March to Gallows i. 10 It wasn't an environment for highflown escape. Nantgarw china and French song, for example.
2001 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 9 June (Features section) 33 All types of Welsh ceramics, from humble Llanelly pottery cawl bowls..to the rarest of Nantgarw porcelain pieces, are avidly sought by Welsh collectors.
B. n.
Nantgarw porcelain.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > porcelain > Welsh porcelain
Nantgarw1880
1849 L. W. Dillwyn Let. 5 June in J. Marryat Coll. Hist. Pottery & Porcelain (1850) ix. 186/2 I believe that all the China with granulated fracture was marked ‘Nantgarrow’.]
1880 J. Randall Hist. Madeley 206 Employing agents in Paris to buy up Sevres china in white for the purpose of having it painted in London, as Nantgarw had been.
1891 Fortn. Rev. May 775 Some pretty English things..white plates of Nantgarw, bestrewn with Billingsley's pink grey roses.
1933 W. D. Honey Eng. Pottery & Porcelain xv. 227 Nantgarw and Swansea are eagerly collected to-day.
a1972 R. F. Delderfield Give us this Day (1973) v. viii. 711 He loved to ponder..the..motifs on his early Worcester glazes, his choice pieces of Nantgarw..and Rockingham.
2002 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 24 Feb. 45 The Nantgarw pieces that appear there are quickly snapped up. At our last fair, about £26,000 worth of Nantgarw was sold in a morning.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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