How To Use Porcelain In A Sentence

The only time I have done them is for older teenagers with congenitally missing back teeth (with the baby tooth still there at that age) whose only cosmetic option is the porcelain fused to metal crown (those run around $800 or more each) and usually necessitates a pulpal treatment as well due to the small tooth size, and these crowns having a questionable prognosis in baby teeth. White Crowns For Baby Teeth
I found myself in a salon with a very well-painted, highly varnished floor; chairs and sofas covered with white draperies, a green porcelain stove, walls hung with pictures in gilt frames, a gilt pendule and other ornaments on the mantelpiece, a large lustre pendent from the centre of the ceiling, mirrors, consoles, muslin curtains, and a handsome centre table completed the inventory of furniture. The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
she shouted as she threw the porcelain washbowl that had rested a moment before on the nightstand next to the bed. RISE OF A MERCHANT PRINCE: BOOK TWO OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
These included balsam, musk, benzoin, aloeswood, ginger, muslin, thoroughbred Arabian horses, and Chinese porcelain.
It is called la table des Grands Capitaines, and the porcelain top features great military commanders, represented here in a stunning imitation of antique calcedony cameos. French Porcelain

LOUISE of Watford - the porcelain figurines are valuable. The Sun
Striking too are Leon Victor Solon's 1896 porcelain plaque Resting and the metal and alabaster three tulips lamps by Albert Cheuret.
Their baggage mules transported not only the precious vases, but even the fragile vessels of crystal and murra, which last is almost proved, by the learned French translator of Seneca, (tom.iii. p. 402-422,) to mean the porcelain of China and History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3
If you can't afford parquet wood flooring, fake it with porcelain tiles. Times, Sunday Times
Use a pot of white porcelain or glazed earthenware, with its edge partly serrated and provided with a lid, the skirt of which fits loosely inside
Among them: an autographed photo of golfer Arnold Palmer, oil paintings, Limoges porcelain dishes, Baccarat crystal stemware, light fixtures, fur coats, a custom-made breakfront cabinet, brass platters and Southwestern pottery. Turning Others' Junk Into Treasure for Local Charities
Her glazed porcelain wings billow in a gossamer sweep of iridescence.
The imperfections are then cleaned off with tools and the casting is put in the kiln at 1225 cone 6 and becomes vitrified porcelain.
The museum sends fragile porcelain objects to specialists to be restored.
His stylish and decorative mythological paintings, tapestry cartoons, and designs for porcelain provided the setting for the lives of the rich and fashionable.
Miguel stepped out and slammed the door, leaving Cristalena sitting inside like a porcelain doll.
Gilli, a cordon bleu chef, suggests ‘roasting unpeeled cloves of porcelain garlic with potatoes and olive oil in the oven for 40 minutes at 180 C’.
In this film, the porcelain beauty of an incredibly attractive and unimaginably young Joan Crawford matches Chaney's angry armless antagonist magnificently.
A varied subgroup of purple stripe, this type also has characteristics of both rocambole and porcelain types and is possibly the garlic from which rocambole evolved.
Call it what you will - lily white, creamy white, porcelain or pearl - I am still ghostly pale.
Food stalls and shops, the buildings made of the same porcelainlike material as the farmhouse, in gaudy primary colors. Spin
fragile porcelain plates
Jody stands as if her spine were fused, as if she were for ever balancing a large porcelain vase on her head.
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Boucher's shepherdesses are not quite those manufactured in Nymphenburg and Meissen, although their complexions have something of the translucency of porcelain, whilst his herdsmen are streamlined terracotta.
Although it is merely sixty pages long, and lamentably lacks footnotes, it is nonetheless the best and most up-to-date capsule history of Chinese porcelains made for the European and American markets available.
By the late eighteenth century, porcelain had replaced ivory as the material of choice for teeth in dentures.
By putting the kaolin and the petuntse together in the right proportions, moulding the clay, and afterward applying to it a glaze of some sort the Chinese made their porcelain, and very beautiful porcelain it was. The Story of Porcelain
Local imitation of Chinese wares and, later, imitations of those imitations depended on the discovery of native deposits of kaolin or of similar nonfusible earth. 32 reference Projects to invent, or reinvent a product as good as porcelain included geological ventures and mineralogical comparisons as well as chemical tests of porcelain bodies and coloring experiments. 33 The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
When Railpen invested in art it bought a wide collection that spanned Chinese porcelain to African tribal paintings.
Given the scarcity of examples of bird painting on Niderviller faience or porcelain, it is impossible to say what Gerverot's birds may have looked like.
And just when you think that an evil character might have found redemption, whammo, he comes up with a shard of porcelain. Tuckered out : Bev Vincent
There are typical MacDonald observations and descriptions, like this one: "Three lean women in bathing suits sat at one tabel, complete with beach bags, tall drinks, and that special porcelainized facial expression of middle forties trying, with monied success, to look like middle thirties. Archive 2009-04-05
A balcony above the mezzanine displayed the porcelain, clothing, and other goods offered for sale.
The design is copied from Japanese porcelains of the fourteenth century.
These may have been ornamental porcelains intended to be used as table decorations.
Finally, was the cup made of bone china or ordinary porcelain?
At the second appointment, your dentist will take off the temporary crown and cement the gold or porcelain one in place.
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They want to feel, they want to experience the - whether they ` re going to go ahead and do porcelain laminates, which is - could run them $20,000 to $30,000. CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2006
Her dark curls framed her porcelain skin and full lips. Times, Sunday Times
A wide range of distinctive antique items - from jewellery, porcelain and paintings to clocks and a selection of furniture - will be on sale.
The imperfections are then cleaned off with tools and the casting is put in the kiln at 1225 cone 6 and becomes vitrified porcelain.
If you can't afford parquet wood flooring, fake it with porcelain tiles. Times, Sunday Times
Therewith up sprang the gardener lad and mounting one of the young men's mules, was absent awhile, after which he returned with a Cairene girl, as she were a sheep's tail, fat and delicate, or an ingot of pure silvern ore or a dinar on a porcelain plate or a gazelle in the wold forlore. Arabian nights. English
Hollywood is a porcelain skin over a pockmarked landscape of shattered dreams and when a tsunamic wave of pus from old and new wounds surges no medications on earth can prevent the utter destruction it wreaks. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
And whilst each one hent bunch in hand, the gardener brought the wine-service and setting it before them, on a tray of porcelain arabesqued with red gold, recited these two couplets, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Porcelain, silk, ivory, crystal, muslin, chintz and lacquered wood were all first introduced to Europe between 1500 and 1800.
De Waal charts the secrecy and alchemy surrounding the race for porcelain: the great riches and low cunning that enveloped the mystery. Times, Sunday Times
Readers will recognize the Ktesibios floating valve as the predecessor to the floating ball in the upper chamber of the porcelain throne.
The sink and toilet and enormous bath, complete with tiled steps, were all black while the porcelain floor and wall tiles were a dusky rose veined with cream.
The prince had to order a second coffer of cigarettes, and coffee in small porcelain cups decorated with dying swans.
Desperate to extricate herself from the situation, she ends up at the "Cat Bureau" where she gets help from Baron, a living porcelain cat figurine with refined manners, a Puss-'n'-Boots-style of omnicompetence, and a couple of goofball sidekicks. Archive 2007-09-01
The majority of trials were conducted with purple shore crabs, the most abundant predatory species co-occurring with porcelain crabs.
I have English Breakfast tea in a blue and white porcelain cup - not an austere Chinese willows weeping vessel, but an Italian blue flowers happily dancing on white type ceramic curvy cup.
There were lamps of all sizes with every type of base: porcelain, brass, copper, wood, ceramic, glass, Perspex. CHAMELEON
The outstanding representatives were Lingnan style, Cantonese (Guang) Embroidery, faience (painted porcelain), sculpture, and canton music.
Chinese porcelains produced for export are among the most revered of all ceramics.
Nothing is safe from this porcelain peccant pilferer, this corrupt criminal crockery, for the moment you turn your back, this amazing Ash Tray will abscond with all your electronic posessions and sell them on ebay. Mug with a Message | Engrish.com
The writer equated ‘its shell-like translucency [with] the finest old Chinese porcelain.’
Portraits were hanging on the walls, and near the white porcelain stove stood two large Chinese vases with lions on the covers. Andersen's Fairy Tales
In addition to original colors and exactly reproduced textiles, almost all of the furnishings, including furniture, silver, porcelains, and portraits, belonged to Andrew Jackson.
Sidonie was an 'etagere' covered with childish toys, petty, trivial knickknacks, microscopic fans, dolls 'tea-sets, gilded shoes, little shepherds and shepherdesses facing one another, exchanging cold, gleaming, porcelain glances. The French Immortals Series — Complete
The museum boasts an unrivalled collection of French porcelain.
It shows men drinking from porcelain cups without handles, and coffee being served from a metal or earthenware jug.
But the bodyâ€ ¦. the body is made of clayâ€ â€ â€œPorcelain, â€ the passenger and her chin interjected. â€œSuki is made of porcelain. â€ â€œItâ€ ™ s clay, â€ Harun said. â€œThis isnâ€ ™ t even furnace kindling. â€ She was about to toss it back on the table in disgust, but the passenger yanked it out of her hands. 365 tomorrows » 2006 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
These will include articles of wood, porcelain, jewellery, and a wide variety of gift and handmade items.
The rare porcelain coffeepot augments the museum's extensive holdings of porcelain made by the Tucker manufactory in Philadelphia, one of the first in the United States.
Her porcelain skin is tightly pulled and obviously scarred, but she's beautiful. The Sun
They were the first to use kaolin clay for porcelains, so that when thin enough, the walls revealed breathtaking translucency.
He got an interior designer to put white porcelain tiles in his bathroom. The Sun
Kirchner was appointed in 1727 to work on modelling porcelain for the Japanese Palace but proved wayward and was asked to leave.
Does the noble metal gold roast a porcelain tooth since silver pole effect is good?
One of the largest collections of 18th century porcelain yet found in Britain has been excavated in Hounslow, West London.
The greatest difficulty in identification is often found with the simplest types of unglazed pottery and porcelain about which we will discuss later.
On arrival you should report to reception where you will be directed to the queue for the appropriate discipline - porcelain, furniture, pictures, jewellery, silver, clocks and watches, arms and militaria, books or miscellaneous.
The porcelain handles, which curve to enclose florets, are gilded to imitate gilt bronze.
The original Royal Vienna factory never made portrait porcelain and certainly could not have done so after 1865 when most of this type of porcelain was produced since it no longer existed. My Favourite Porcelain: Royal Vienna
We shower, we smear and spray ourselves with product, we defecate into artfully designed porcelain which takes away the ordure invisibly and more or less odourlessly.
To resemble Pitt, the brothers undergo rhinoplasty, receive chin implants, and obtain porcelain veneers.
A variety of objects fill the two main rooms, among which predominates a series of porcelain and brass objects on a moulded shelf near St Anne's bed.
They both get rhinoplasty, chin implants and porcelain veneers, in the hopes that all the facial overhauling - and massive pain that they suffer - will ultimately help them with their dreams of becoming movie stars.
At first his slip painting on biscuit porcelain simply peeled off.
It is lavishly furnished with outstanding collections such as Chinese porcelain and Renaissance paintings.
Contenant les procédés et nouvelles découvertes, la fabrication du minium, celle d'une nouvelle substance pour la couverte, celle des couleurs vitrifiables, l'art d'imprimer sur faïence et porcelaine, et un vocabulaire de termes techniques et chimiques: avec gravures ... The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
My heart should not be hardening against him but it has and yet it feels like porcelain and as if it is starting to crack.
A grain or so is oxidized into reddish alloxan and alloxantin by carefuly evaporating with a few drops of strong nitric acid on a piece of porcelain. Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887
The latter had a knack for persuading descendants of Chinese nobles to part with their inherited treasures, including rare paintings and porcelains with imperial provenances.
And as far as craftsmanship, depending on which cosmetic dentist you go to, he or she will work with porcelain veneers fabricated by a machine out of Lucite, or porcelain veneers handcrafted out of feldspathic porcelain by a master artist (yes, I call the people who do this type of work artists.) Thomas P. Connelly, D.D.S.: Celebrity Smiles: Why Do They Have to Be So Perfect ? How?
Together with their three children, Runi and Adrian have developed a new company which specializes in textiles, batik and jewelry items made of wood, bronze, porcelain and leather.
It became clear to the factory leadership that neither the emperor nor the empress were interested in copies on porcelain of paintings in the Hermitage.
Inside he displayed a huge collection of Chinese porcelain. Times, Sunday Times
Among the thieves' haul were four antique boxes, rare Meissen porcelain figures, vases and bowls, and two ormolu clocks, which had all been in Lord Chichester's family for generations.
The unusually fine clay yielded a porcelain china that was translucent with a glass-like finish.
Times have changed and many of the world's most beautiful women have gorgeous porcelain skin. The Sun
Everyone coveted a fine porcelain cup and saucer. The Times Literary Supplement
From Malacca there go every year to Martaban, which is a port of Pegu, many ships, both large and small, with pepper, sandal-wood, porcelain of China, camphor, _bruneo_ [165], and other commodities. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07
The porcelain vase is enveloped in cotton.
These grandly baroque pieces in polished red stoneware are precursors of the white porcelain that was to follow in the 1730s and 40s.
After that I started collecting pottery and porcelain and then started selling it.
Her face was ghostly white, like porcelain. Times, Sunday Times
Dinner tables were embellished with armorial silver and porcelain, gaming tables used mother-of-pearl gaming counters bearing coats of arms, while libraries were filled with rare volumes containing armorial bookplates.
The bathroom suite is white against beige porcelain tiles. Times, Sunday Times
She dipped the tips of her fingers into the scented water that had been laid before her, in china and porcelain bowls as white as the cloth upon which all the dishes had been placed.
He makes versions of famous images out of any material at home: cracked porcelain, burned wood scraps, chunks of old books.
There was a shelf above the tiny fireplace, acting as a mantelpiece for the clock, which was one of those porcelain shells with a clock face as it's inner pattern.
Intruders used a fireside peat basket to carry antique silverware, porcelain and clocks to a waiting van.
She had curly cherry red hair that framed her porcelain doll face.
On the cloth I set porcelain bowls and dished out the first course.
He got an interior designer to put white porcelain tiles in his bathroom. The Sun
creamware," a rich, creamy-looking glazed pottery that looked like porcelain but was able to withstand temperature changes. Art Knowledge News
Porcelain After the Chinese began transforming kaolin clay into fire-hardened, gleaming white vessels about 1,800 years ago, the Italians dubbed the style porcellana , or porcelain, because it reminded them of shiny cowrie shells. The China Factor
Again, many of these objects were inspired by the peerless collection of Chinese porcelain amassed by the Sultans and housed in the Topkapi, the best outside China.
The interiors are all original chinoiseries and stained glass, oil paintings, Meissen porcelain, taffeta and silk.
There would always be an amuse-bouche or three; there would be a pre-dessert to flatter your palate in preparation for your actual dessert; instead of a sugar cube, finely spun sugar would arrive on a porcelain stirrer made by someone exquisite. El Bulli closes: Farewell parmesan frozen air...
An arrangement of porcelain flowers, or miniature horses, or even a bowlful of gardenias from yesteryear would qualify as one of today's tablescapes.
Intruders used a fireside peat basket to carry antique silverware, porcelain and clocks to a waiting van.
The exhibition is on view until December 31 and includes ceramics, bone and metal implements, goblets, pitchers, fragments of marionettes, and Chinese porcelain.
The Japanese use the word yaki for porcelain, pottery and earthenware alike.
Her face was ghostly white, like porcelain. Times, Sunday Times
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.
Jenny took the society through all the processes before and after firing at high temperatures fine porcelain clay.
These grandly baroque pieces in polished red stoneware are precursors of the white porcelain that was to follow in the 1730s and 40s.
The marks by which the Mandarin porcelain may be known are not decidedly agreed on.
Traditionally the men dance in circles around the women, who give the men betel to chew as they dance, but Hainuwele gives the people valuable gifts - coral, jewels, gongs, porcelain, and other things, all made from her excrement.
Besides Imari, the most famous names for porcelain are Arita, Kutani, Hirado, Kakiemon and Satsuma.
The utility model is composed of a common cooker body, a sleeve pipe, a heating wire, a temperature-controlling switch, a tap, a porcelain plate, etc.
Inside he displayed a huge collection of Chinese porcelain. Times, Sunday Times
The towns produced everything from tempered steel and porcelain to cotton and leather goods.
The tops of cabinets, doorframes, and overmantels rapidly became the preferred locations for the display of newly imported and prized porcelain.
Never ever try and keep up with them, unless you want to get closely aquatinted with the porcelain telephone in your study bedroom. on December 9, 2009 at 6: 53 pm Metcountymounty Our Friends From The North « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
The elaborate overall ornament is in the Moorish tradition, while the details of the decoration - chrysanthemums and long-tailed birds, possibly quetzals - are derived from Chinese porcelain examples and local fauna respectively.
Though her drawings are understandably somewhat amateur, one can see that the pastoral ideal found on porcelain animates her Chinese scenes; she drew landscapes that were filled with flowers, butterflies, streams, fishermen, and Chinese architecture. The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
Each of these pieces is a plate-thin, gracefully curving slab of porcelain, about a foot wide and 3 feet long, with sharply beveled edges, resting horizontally on a squat wooden support.
Available exclusively to the readers of the magazine, these three ready-to-hang prints feature primroses showcased in porcelain cachepots.
The porcelain wand ensures a shiny glossy finish. The Sun
The dishes may be round or rectangular and are made of pottery, porcelain, or decorated lacquer.
Maybe add some oversized objects - porcelain bowls or cachepots can be interspersed with books.
He got an interior designer to put white porcelain tiles in his bathroom. The Sun
Both accumulation of metals in vivo in plants and distribution of the plant species growing in porcelain clay abandoned in a selected mine of copper and zinc were investigated.
I seized the porcelain basin from the nightstand, getting it to Penelope’s lap just in time. On Desperate Seas « A Fly in Amber
This is classic Chinese gardening at its finest with dragon spined walls, glazed porcelain tiles and an abundance of well-pruned plants and peaceful ponds.
The Salt and Pepper dispensers, in lovely porcelain and bright - coloured, imported from China were tempting.
The plate soared through the air, slicing the twilight, before a bullet made contact with it, shattering the porcelain dish in midair.
The privy had its little stand in the corner with a blue curtain and a small wash stand and porcelain sink with a mirror.
The fragments of pottery include specimens plainly not of Indian manufacture, such as fragments of porcelain, and that variety of glazed ware known as delf, and lastly, the neck of a glass bottle. The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races
It is no longer just porcelains decorated with colourful enamels and with mark and period that make the huge prices.
Her dark curls framed her porcelain skin and full lips. Times, Sunday Times
The neck is longer and more elegant, the underglaze blue cobalt lighter and purer in tone, and the porcelain itself whiter and with fewer occlusions.
Times have changed and many of the world's most beautiful women have gorgeous porcelain skin. The Sun
Portraits were hanging on the walls, and near the white porcelain stove stood two large Chinese vases with lions on the covers. Andersen's Fairy Tales
Place them in a jam jar, porcelain bowl, or other similar container.
The museum displays 200 paintings and 50 sculptures, as well as porcelain, enamels, ivories, arms, tapestries and furniture.
The silvery moonlight dappled Luka's skin like sunlight, bleaching it to a state of porcelain perfection.
The natives, after each mouthful, sipped arrak from porcelain cups, and used golden spoons to eat their rice. Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold
I was so interested to learn that porcelain was discovered during the Ming Dynasty in China and that Marco Polo's team is accredited with bringing the skills of slip casting to the West.
Two creamware Whieldon models copied from the same print are known - but nothing in porcelain has previously surfaced.
Then the bowl is thrust at me with battered wooden chopsticks and a porcelain spoon.
Greenish white porcelain is a famous genre of Northern Song Dynasty porcelain, and the handled ewer as a prominent representative is distinguished in particular for its unique shapes.
Everything is genuine and costly, as becomes the gifts of a king, though it must be admitted that certain of the royal offerings which are ranged at the foot of the shrine, such as jeweled French clocks, figurines of Sèvres and Dresden porcelain, and a large marble statue of a Roman goddess, are of doubtful appropriateness. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China
The ‘Symbols of Freedom’ flag is made of cold-cast porcelain, and the eagle is made of Legends [R] bronze, fine pewter and 24 kt. gold vermeil.
It beat the previous world record for Chinese porcelain of 20million. The Sun
The unusually fine clay yielded a porcelain china that was translucent with a glass-like finish.
His acquisitions included Chinese porcelains, medieval and Renaissance paintings, and rare books, especially on religion.
Porcelain making got its start there after Hideyoshi Toyotomi attacked Korea in the 1590s and brought back Korean pottery experts, who settled in Hizen province. Archive 2009-07-01
Auguste Rodin is world famous for his sculpture, but his work as a ceramicist at the Sevres porcelain manufactory is less well known.
Pieces that exhibit small, careful brushstrokes are in general considered typical of Peking, while those that display a palette and brush technique strongly akin to famille rose porcelain of the period are considered to be Cantonese.
Splinters pierced his porcelain fingertips, such terrible reminders to what had happened only hours before.
You could say that the only sound was the cling and clatter of eating utensils hitting the porcelain plates.
He received six crowns and 15 porcelain veneers.
It comprises more than seventy objects, including porcelains, paintings, watercolors, furniture, bronzes, screens, and jewelry.
Apply your chosen shade all over your eyelids and underneath your lower lash line to make your eyes stand out and give skin a porcelain finish. The Sun
‘A hundred pennies make a dollar,’ my father would say, encouraging me to surrender the coin in my hand to a narrow slot in the head of a porcelain pig.
I've chipped too many porcelain pots to be comfortable with the idea of glass shards in my first cup of the day.
Today it stands half-forgotten in the woods behind the Chateau de Rambouillet, in Rambouillet, denuded of its furnishings, its elegant porcelains, and most of its sculptures.
Her china and porcelain table services with their clean lines revolutionised the look of American kitchens and dining rooms. Times, Sunday Times
Using airbrush, spray paint, glitter and acrylic, she depicts subjects ranging from a military operation in Iraq to a piece of Chinese porcelain, in a kind of fuzzy, watercolorish manner.
Immense vases and candelabras of alabaster were placed at different distances on the table, and hundreds of porcelain dishes were filled with sweetmeats and fruits – sweetmeats of every description, from the little meringue called "mouthful for a queen," to the blancmanger made of suprême de volaille and milk. Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
She made an imprint of the cap and, although she spoke only four words of English - open, wider, close, rinse - I understood that the fitted crown had to go to el laboratorio to be porcelain coated to match the color of my teeth. Have Crown, Will Travel
Her porcelain skin is tightly pulled and obviously scarred, but she's beautiful. The Sun
Diopside type, celsian type, and willemite type raw matt glazes for the porcelain tile were developed on the basis of the experiments.
GIGAS sometimes betrays evidence of past internal trouble by the presence of a concretion of porcelain whiteness and of porcellaneous texture, but such are not to be described as pearls and to be prized as rarities only. Tropic Days
The paintings first appear to be straightforward - if somewhat naive and cartoonish - renderings of landscapes, circus performers, the Cathedral of Notre Dame and porcelain vases.
They cut down teeth and go for a full sweep of white porcelain. Times, Sunday Times
The glossy porcelain finish makes them pretty enough to be used as tableware. Times, Sunday Times
As potting and glazing technologies became more advanced during the 18th century, porcelain production reached a high point.
Such were his powers of persuasion he talked her into accepting €900 for an eighteenth century library table, two satinwood chairs and some porcelain.
When paintings are finished, porcelain slip is poured onto bat and tapped gently to remove any air bubbles.
The earthenware works are hand-built of pads of clay and the porcelains of neater rectangular slabs; all show the pressure marks of fingers.
The rooms are filled with magnificent writing tables with trompe l' oeil marquetry, cabinets, carpets, tapestries, porcelain and gold and silver wear.
Those porcelain cups and saucers are just crying out to be enjoyed with dainty pastries. Times, Sunday Times
Her porcelain skin is tightly pulled and obviously scarred, but she's beautiful. The Sun
Readers will recognize the Ktesibios floating valve as the predecessor to the floating ball in the upper chamber of the porcelain throne.
He says, moreover, that all goods carried from the said islands are mere trifles, from which the land derives no profit -- such as porcelains, escritoires, caskets, fans, and parasols, all flimsy and very unprofitable. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 06 of 55 1583-1588 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
Fiona came into the room then, carrying two cups of coffee, porcelain cups with saucers.
The tea cups are porcelain.
In addition to elaborate marquetry panels and inset porcelain plaques, much of this furniture was accented with bronze mounts.
Basin of material choice face is pottery and porcelain, stainless steel and real wood make the cabinet below mesa, laying aside white towel trimly .
Sara Clemence/The Wall Street Journal A guanaco at rest Our guide led us along a pleasant and sometimes hilly path; we paused to examine a delicate porcelain orchid and to gasp at views. So Far, So Good
Dating to around 1760-75, many bear delicate but thickly applied ‘high-relief’ polychrome enamelled flowers, exotic birds, fruit, chinoiseries and gilt-scrolled borders characteristic of contemporary Chelsea porcelain.

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