How To Use Delft In A Sentence
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Although light in weight and less prone to chipping than delftware, this new refined earthenware was still not as durable as white salt-glazed stoneware.
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From Rotterdam to Delft, all the way by the canal, allowing for the détour via Schiedam, is less than twenty kilometres, and the journey is short for any sort of an automobile that will go beyond a snail's pace.
The Automobilist Abroad
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The pine dresser against the wall still held a few cracked pieces of blue-and-white delft.
FALSE MERMAID
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Each wall is painted in a different color, such as fuchsia, delft blue or bright orange.
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A large invoice of Portuguese "road ware" was sent to the Maine settlers in 1634, and proved thoroughly unsuitable and undurable; but probably no china -- not even Delft ware -- came over on the Mayflower.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England
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The drawings and watercolors on exhibit vary from preparatory sketches to finished drawings depicting views in Delft that are still recognizable today.
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The Nieuwe Kerk's carillon came streaming around me, and then the cold breezy air was filled with the celestial silvery noise of thousands of bells ringing out midday from all the towers and steeples of Delft.
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Since many pieces of English delftware are dated, they have long been held in particularly high regard by antiquarians and collectors.
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The shopwindows in this district were full of delftware—a cross between pewter and bone in broad daylight—and slabs of Belgian chocolate that stood as solid and brown as the earth itself.
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre
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He also made other types of ceramics, among them copies of Dutch Delft and Raku wares.
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Someone had stacked up dozens of conical limpet shells to form narrow, teetering towers on the shelves where delft once stood.
FALSE MERMAID
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No doubt Vermeer owed a particular debt to Delft, but it is the great dichotomies of Dutch art generally that nourished his genius.
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Literally in a backwater not far from The Hague, Delft reposes among the clefts made through the sleepy Dutch fields by the delta of the Rhine.
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The body is hand painted in polychrome enamels in the Bristol delft style and decorated with a figure of a Chinese gentleman beckoning to a distant flock of birds (estimate €1,500 - €2,000).
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We're kinda planning on going out in Leiden next weekend, with the attendant medical school and skewed male/female ratios therein (think technical courses i.e. the whole of darn Delft, but the opposite way around), so I may well have to see what I can do about my confidence before then.
March 7th, 2005
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So we all and Mr. Ibbott, the Minister, took a schuit -- [The trekschuit (drag-boat) along the canal is still described as an agreeable conveyance from Leyden to Delft.] -- and very much pleased with the manner and conversation of the passengers, where most speak French; went after them, but met them by the way.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 05: May 1660
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The four Delftware gallipots, a big wide one and three smaller high ones, may have belonged to the inventory of the sick-bay.
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We then wandered onto Kloisters, which is one of the two bars in Delft with a 'beer menu' i.e. they have so many different beers that they need a book-like menu to list all of them.
January 30th, 2005
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Mr. O'Sullivan and I liked the plates with abstracted flower patterns overlaid with gilded outlines of Delftware vessels ($518), and the vases and bowls with overlapping streaks of denim-colored paint inspired by Chinese brushwork ($328 for a small fluted bowl).
Delight in Blue and White
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Relief and gratitude blazed from her eyes, which were once again that beguiling delft blue.
Shameless
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I have seen a man and wife drinking coffee from one small tin pan, their china and delftware having been left in fragments to decorate the desert wayside.
Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method
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Made of a light-buff clay, and known as delftware, the tiles unearthed are decorated in blue, with a conventionalized design in each corner and
New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America
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The delft blue eyes looked back at him unblinkingly.
Shameless
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Mr. Sainsbury was passionate about English delftware pottery, and there are 80 lots in the sale all dating to the 1600s, including plates, tankards, jugs, wine bottles and vases.
Sainsbury Sale Highlights
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During a conference in Delft (Conference on Damage Tolerance of Aircraft Structures: 25-28 September 2007), GTM and Alcoa have presented the new concept to international experts in the field of metal fatigue and damage sensitivity of aircraft constructions.
Delft Material Concept For Aircraft Wings Could Save Billions | Impact Lab
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Everyday life in 17th century Delft is so vivid in Girl with a Pearl
An interview with Tracy Chevalier about Girl With A Pearl Earring
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And now I'm back in Delft, and my ordered copy of Blue Gender has finally arrived.
January 10th, 2005
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Over the centuries the makers of delftware have copied all sorts of decorative styles so that this essentially imitative craft has become a style in itself.
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The blue-and-white London delftware punch bowl shown in Plate IV beam a floral sprig on the interior, and, because of its deep profile, is datable to between about 1715 and 1730.
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The furniture was sparse—a dresser with delft, a rough kitchen table with chairs, the armchair she sat in, and the rocking chair in which Mrs. Prendergast rocked, a black-and-white cat purring companionably on her lap.
Winter Bloom
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To their left, under a dome of palms, was a marble basin, on the edges of which four large swans of delftware emitted the water from their beaks.
Bel Ami
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That shard of blue-and-white delft in her treasure box had come from somewhere along this coast.
FALSE MERMAID
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A video piece of handwashing by Bruce Naumann sits comfortably with a splendid display of Delft tiles; and a blue-and-white chamber pot and several life-size sofa-type objects with their "backs" made from tons of processed human feces somehow go nicely with the 1661 English delftware plate deflatingly inscribed "You and I are Earth.
Dishing the 'Dirt' on Filth
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Included in the price are two nights' accommodation berthed in Amsterdam and one night in Volendam, buffet breakfast on board, twin-bedded en suite cabin, a visit to Delft, return coach travel and ferry crossings.
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Visions of blue and white delftware passed through our minds as we entered the old town, which hardly looks as though worldly automobilists would be well received.
The Automobilist Abroad
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In Nosferatu the Vampyre, thousands of rats were let loose in Delft and I don't know if they were all accounted for at the end.
Werner Herzog, a movie-making genius of performance art
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Here, one can find anything and everything from the likes of monumental archaic Chinese bronzes to Byzantine ivories or medieval sculpture and Delft, maiolica and porcelain, tribal art, rare books, manuscripts, drawings and prints.
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Related scenes ornament archaeological fragments of two delft chamber pots and a small punch bowl from sites in New Castle, Delaware.
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Delft is definitely a nice picturesque town to visit if you have a morning.
Schiphol Surprises
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A Street in Delft by Jan Vermeer, painted 1657-58.
Thank You, Holland!
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» Dept. of Funny Signs (and cool infrastructure): automated bollard in Delft • Spacing Toronto • understanding the urban landscape
» Dept. of Funny Signs (and cool infrastructure): automated bollard in Delft • Spacing Toronto • understanding the urban landscape
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On this side of the Atlantic, the colonists were using large quantities of delftware imported from England until creamware became popular in the 1760s. Delftware was largely a memory by 1840.
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He later moved to Delft, where he was well known and became a syndic of the Guild of Saint Luke.
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The delft industry grew in Southwark, and by 1640 there were some forty potters working there, many of them Dutch immigrants.
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Tin-glazed earthenware was first manufactured in Delft, Holland, in the early seventeenth century.
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Susan Dzivak—a girl that I'dworshippedwhen I was a boy, a blonde Slovak beauty, my delft-blue-eyed lover for one tick of time, grown up and unclothed in the soft, shadowed light, who whispered to me, "It's time you learned wisdom.
All Of My Monsters And Beautiful Women In Dreams
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The works included mostly paintings, some etchings, charcoal and brush sketches, drypoint work, watercolors of plants, blown glass goblets and containers, Delft ceramic tiles and vessels and silver items (and a few miniature chairs, 6 inches high).
Vermeer and Rembrandt at the Vancouver Art Gallery « Colleen Anderson
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Pieter de Hooch's arrival in Delft is misdated in the catalogue as 1654, although a will he witnessed in 1652 describes him as a ‘resident of Delft’.
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Fine porcelain ware brought to Europe in the 16th century was named for its origin, China (the imitation, delft, came from Delft, Netherlands).
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 4
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Striding towards the banquet-table with his flouncing companion at his side, Crockett secured a large delftware platter and commenced to fill it with a prodigious quantity of viands.
Nevermore
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Her delft blue eyes took on a decidedly militant sparkle, and a flush—that curse of all redheads—heated her porcelain skin.
Shameless
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Other British politicians are commemorated on excavated English delft punch bowls, including some found at Philipsburg Manor in New York that are inscribed ‘Pitt & Liberty.’
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However, in 1614 the States General commissioned him to design the funerary monument for William the Silent in the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft.
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It is certainly true, with reference to paintings like The Little Street or View of Delft, that a topographical artist cannot change the buildings which are in front of him.
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Stoneware began to overtake delftware as a practical and stylish dinnerware with the introduction, between about 1740 and 1745 from France, of plaster of Paris for making molds.
