单词 | lowestoft |
释义 | Lowestoftn. I. Compounds. 1. attributive. Designating a soft-paste porcelain made at Lowestoft from c1757 to c1801, and items made from this. ΚΠ 1790 E. Gillingwater Hist. Acct. Lowestoft ix. 423 It was agreed upon to open a subscription..in order to raise a sum sufficient for building a man of war..on which occasion the town of Lowestoft subscribed as follows:—Mr Walker, for the proprietors of the Lowestoft porcelain manufactory £10 10s. 0d. 1875 L. Troubridge Jrnl. 18 Jan. in Life amongst Troubridges (1966) x. 106 Two pretty old Lowestoft bowls. 1974 Country Life 6 June 1517/2 Rare Lowestoft coffee pot..circa 1776. 2011 M. Houghton Pitch Uncertain 84 It was also his answer to his own father, a stern and didactic collector of Early American furniture, English Lowestoft china and embroidered wall samplers. II. Simple uses. 2. Lowestoft porcelain. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > porcelain > English porcelain Worcester1802 Plymouth1816 New Hall1829 Broseley porcelain1845 Colebrook Dale1855 Crown Derby1855 Caughley porcelain1868 Derby1868 Plymouth1869 Lowestoft1875 Longton1885 frit-porcelain1889 Coalport1899 porcelain making1903 Goss1906 Longton Hall1925 Pinxton1928 1875 L. Troubridge Jrnl. 9 June in Life amongst Troubridges (1966) x. 120 In the window was a most beautiful tea-set of old blue Lowestoft. 1912 C. Mackenzie Carnival xviii. 181 ‘But what a terrible teapot.’.. ‘It's old Lowestoft.’ 1968 R. H. R. Smithies Shoplifter (1969) 8 A small irregular pair of Georgian silver candlesticks flanked a bowl of armorial Lowestoft..the gold tracery glittering against the ultramarine glaze and the creamy porcelain. 2003 Cincinnati Enquirer (Nexis) 4 Jan. 3 For years Chinese Export porcelain was referred to as ‘Oriental Lowestoft’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1790 |
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