单词 | redware |
释义 | redwaren.2 Now chiefly historical. Any of various kinds of pottery made from red clay or given a red colour in firing; esp. (a) boccaro as imported into Europe from China in the 17th cent., or European stoneware made in imitation of this; (b) a kind of coarse pottery made from red clay which fires at a low temperature. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > glazed China-metal1599 faience1670 redware1699 salt glaze1968 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > unglazed terra-cotta1722 biscuit1768 biscuitware1773 bisque1782 redware1832 terre cuite1869 1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris (new ed.) 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. 1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World vii. 250 Their earthen ware..is almost as beautiful as the red ware from China. 1753 D. Henry Hist. Descr. St. Paul’s Cathedral 23 The Roman Urns were generally well wrought, of the Colour of the modern red Ware of Staffordshire. 1832 G. R. Porter Treat. Manuf. Porcelain & Glass 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. 1896 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 16 286 The large globular bottles of the earliest ‘redware’ of the Cypriote Bronze Age. 1934 Discovery June 166/2 Plain burnished red ware. 1959 Chambers'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. 1965 E. 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. 2007 Bradenton (Florida) Herald (Nexis) 23 Sept. 6 Chester County, Pa., provided the young American nation with clocks, redware and fine furniture. Compounds General attributive and appositive. ΚΠ 1852 Hist. County of Oxf. 856 Leafield has been noted for some time for its red-ware pottery. ?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 88 Red Ware Potter. 1979 Amer. Antiquity 44 88 The Coba redware sherd contained abundant ash shards. 1996 Amer. Anthropologist 98 805/1 The production of red-on-buff pottery [among the Hohokam] decreased dramatically at the beginning of the Classic period, while redware manufacture increased. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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