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Zurich
(ˈzʊərɪk, ‖ ˈtsyːrɪç)
Also Zürich.
The name of a city on Lake Zurich in Switzerland, used attrib. to designate porcelain manufactured there in the eighteenth century.
1870C. Schreiber Jrnl. 18 Feb. (1911) I. 71 Crispin still possessed the Zurich cups we saw there two years ago. 1875Ibid. 26 Feb. 360 Some very pretty Zurich écuelles. 1897F. Litchfield Chaffers's Marks Pott. & Porc. (ed. 8) 530 Mr. H. Angst..has the most important collection of Zurich porcelain known. 1949W. B. Honey European Ceramic Art 42 Zurich porcelain at its best shows a belated Rococo and a rare beauty of colour. 1981Times 25 May 10/5 Among features in the sale..were..Zurich porcelains. Ibid., {pstlg}3,721, for an attractive Zurich hunting group of about 1770.
b. Zurich gnome: see gnome2 1 c.
1970K. Giles Death in Church vii. 168, I arranged to ‘buy’ it from our Swiss agent, a nice Zurich gnome. 1972D. Lees Zodiac 11, I certainly wasn't going to break up the Zurich gnome's marriage—not even for money. 1981‘D. Jordan’ Double Red ii. 14 Those who really believe in Zürich gnomes and see in each day's gold fixing the action of some giant hidden hand. |