blue-printedadj.
/ˈbluːprɪntᵻd/, U.S. /ˈbluˌprɪn(t)ᵻd/ Ceramics.
Of pottery: decorated using the blue printing process (blueprinting n. 1). Also, of the decoration itself: created using the blue printing process. Now historical.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [adjective] > having specific decoration
cane-coloured1787
blue-printed1797
crackled1876
rice grain1876
soufflé1878
fingertip1914
rusticated1916
Nuzi1941
1797 Times 20 Sept. 4/3 A large assortment of blue printed ware.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 482 The blue-printed pottery is a very popular kind.
1877 Subscriber's Monthly 14 566/1 It is generally believed that Thomas Turner..in 1780, completed the first blue printed table service made in England.
1907 E. Singleton Story White House xii. 240 Among the items we find a fancy toilet seat, 5 blue printed foot tubs, a white China glazed toilet seat, [etc.].
1987 J. Lane 18th-Cent. Eng. Porcelain Coll. Indianapolis Mus. Art. 256 Most blue-printed china with a hatched blue-printed crescent is today identified as Worcester porcelain of the years 1770 to 1790.
2005 P. Hyland Herculaneum Pottery iii. 29 A blue-printed mug in the National Museums Liverpool collection bears the initials ‘SMC’, thought to stand for Sampson and Myra Cordon.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adj.1797