potteryn.

Brit.

/ˈpɒt(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈpɑdəri/

Forms: late Middle English potterye, 1600s (1700s Scottish) potterie, 1600s– pottery.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Perhaps also partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: French poterie , potterie ; pot n.¹, -ery suffix.

Etymology: < Middle French, French poterie, †potterie art of making pots (1260 in Old French), potter's workshop (13th cent. in Old French), piece of pottery (1337; now also as mass noun) < pot pot n.¹ + -erie -ery suffix. Compare post-classical Latin potaria , poteria potter's workshop (1086, c1270 respectively in British sources). In later use perhaps independently < pot n.¹ + -ery suffix; compare crockery n.

a. A potter's workshop; a factory where porcelain, earthenware, etc., is manufactured.

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society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [noun] > pottery

pottery1480

pothouse1673

potwork1681

piggery1818

mug-house1841

bank1843

pot-bank1888

1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 6 Pottes of erthe Cannes of erthe For to goo the watre Thise thinges shall ye fynde In the potterye [Fr. en le potterye].

1702 W. Sacheverell Acct. Isle of Man 125 The new Pottery is a pretty Curiosity, set up by Mr. Smith the present Soveriegn, and his Predecessor Captain Leathes.

1780 J. Howard State Prisons Eng. & Wales (ed. 2) 156 A prison which had been a pottery.

1825 J. Bentham Rationale Reward 303 The potteries of Wedgwood and Bentley have excelled the porcelain of China.

1867 S. Smiles Huguenots Eng. & Ireland v. 115 Two potters from Antwerp..started a pottery, though in a very humble way.

1974 P. Gzowski Bk. about this Country 120/3 I'm a potter and because I was firing my kiln this morning, I wasn't able to leave the pottery until mid-afternoon.

1992 Antique Dealer & Collectors Guide Jan. 36/3 Attributing a piece to a pottery is difficult as many of the pot bank workers were migration labourers who travelled extensively in search of work.

b. In plural. With the and capital initial. The area around Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, where the English pottery industry is based.

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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > England > [noun] > districts of England

wealdOE

Oxon.c1439

the Stannaries1455

Midland1555

Home Counties1695

Islandshire1705

lakes1774

file1775

potteries1795

the Shires1796

Tyneside1824

lakeland1829

Lake District1835

lake country1842

Wessex1868

Shakespeare country1900

Geordieland1901

cherry country1902

1795 Times 4 Nov. 3/4 A subscription is set on foot amongst the respectable inhabitants of the potteries in Staffordshire, for erecting public granaries, with steam-engines for grinding corn, for the better and cheaper supply of that populous country.

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 485 The district called ‘the Potteries’, is an extensive tract of country in the hundred of North Pyrehill and county of Stafford, comprehending an area of about eight miles long, and six broad.

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1009 A population of 60,000 operatives now derives a comfortable subsistence within a district..which contains 150 kilns, and is significantly called the Potteries.

1898 H. G. Wells War of Worlds i. xi. 80 It was the strangest spectacle, that black expanse set with fire. It reminded me, more than anything else, of the Potteries seen at night.

1948 Geogr. Jrnl. 111 174 About half the county boroughs are in the seven great industrial areas, London, South and East Lancashire, the West Riding, the Black Country, the Potteries, the North East Coast and South Wales.

1987 Workbox Spring–Summer 21/3 The original is believed to have been made in Stoke on Trent..and this reproduction also comes from the Potteries.

2005 Brit. Life Jan.–Feb. 7/1 Fine bone china of this type represents the very best of the historic ceramic tradition of Stoke-on-Trent, an area that is almost better known as The Potteries.

2. The art or craft of manufacturing porcelain, earthenware, etc.; ceramics.

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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > pottery-making or ceramics > [noun]

potter craft?c1450

pottery1601

pot-makinga1649

potting1743

ceramic1859

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxiv. vii. 494 I shall haue fitter and better occasion to write thereof in my treatise of the art of Potterie, which the Greeks call Plastice [Fr. poterie, L. plasticen].

1712 J. Morton Nat. Hist. Northants. 73 At Stoke-Bruerne is a blue Clay, that according to good Judges, wou'd be Excellent in Pottery.

1856 Times 19 Apr. 8/2 A collection of ceramic productions, illustrating the art of pottery, from the earliest specimens of antiquity, down to the latest works of the Imperial Manufactory of Sèvres.

1891 J. F. Nisbet Insanity of Genius 236 Pottery, when he [sc. Wedgwood] took it up, was a rude and barbarous manufacture; he raised it to the dignity of an art.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 441/2 The Ainu, on the contrary, never had any knowledge of pottery.

1943 Elem. School Jrnl. 44 69 Workshop facilities have been developed in order that..work may be carried on by teachers in various types of art, pottery, and handwork.

2004 Central Coast Express (Austral.) (Nexis) 1 Sept. Community members also pitched in to help the sports clubs by giving craft demonstrations in woodturning, silk painting, art, pottery and ceramics.

3. As a mass noun: pots, dishes, and other articles made of fired clay; pottery-ware, ceramics. Formerly also as a count noun: †a piece of this (obsolete).In technical and professional use pottery is divided into earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain (see those words), but in ordinary use the term is now often applied only to articles of earthenware, stoneware, etc., produced by traditional methods and having (relatively) low firing temperatures, as opposed to translucent, vitrified, frequently mass-produced ceramics like porcelain and china.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun]

clay-work1612

earthenwarea1624

pottery ware1633

pot-ware1661

earthware1713

ware1741

pottery1771

vitrefacture1841

ceramic1880

briquetage1902

1771 J. Keir tr. P. J. Macquer Dict. Chem. II. 565 We shall not describe the operation of making pottery, because we have already spoken of it under the articles Delf-ware and Porcelain, from which the common ware only differs, with regard to its manufacture, in its greater simplicity.

1785 J. Phillips Treat. Inland Navigation 21 Norwich goods, groceries, potteries, and other merchandise.

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 484 The drab pottery is useful for articles which require strength to be united to ornament, as flower-pots, water-jugs, &c.

1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man ii. 10 The pottery found associated with weapons of bronze is of a more ornamental and tasteful style than any which belongs to the age of stone.

1888 M. E. Braddon Fatal Three I. v. 104 The shallow milk-pans were of Doulton pottery.

1925 W. Cather Professor's House ii. v. 220 I have seen a collection of early pottery from the island of Crete.

1965 B. Ross Mexico i. 21 They asked him where he had obtained the cloth and the pottery?

2002 J. Cartwright White Lightning xx. 177 The shop..sells African art, pots, beads, and masks,..as well as some local pottery.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

pottery kiln n.

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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 821 The apparatus then resembles certain pottery kilns.

1876 D. Dennett Louisiana as it Is 65 An old Indian pottery kiln was found not far off, with some whole pots in it.

1980 Antiquaries Jrnl. 60 8 Six Romano-British pottery kilns were examined.

2005 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 23 Sept. 16 Firefighters were called to a Tyneside primary school after a pottery kiln overheated.

pottery manufacture n.

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1862 H. Spencer First Princ. ii. iii. §56. 202 Witness..the absorption by Staffordshire of the pottery-manufacture.

1880 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 135/2 It marks an era in pottery manufacture, whose results are the development of a new style of decoration.

1993 Antique Dealer Aug. 30/1 Few makers in England successfuly combined porcelain and pottery manufacture, but Minton kept making both.

pottery market n.

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1853 W. J. Hickie tr. Aristophanes Lysistrata in Comedies II. 416 In the pottery-market, and in the vegetable-market alike, they walk about..with arms.

1935 Times 8 June 11/6 Britain now holds 85 per cent. of the New Zealand pottery market.

2004 Peterborough Evening Telegraph (Nexis) 12 Aug. Crowds of shoppers crammed into the pottery market..to look at the ornate china.

pottery painter n.

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1876 ‘Ouida’ In Winter City iii What pleasant lives these pottery painters of the early days must have led.

1999 Independent (Nexis) 15 Mar. 7 Machin..was born in 1911 in Trent Vale to a family of potters..and seemed destined to remain a pottery painter until the slump in the pottery industry in North Staffordshire in 1929-30.

pottery trade n.

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1718 J. Tourefort de Pitton Voy. into Levant I. 312 The Samians were the first Inventors of the Pottery-Trade.

1863 Times 14 Dec. 9/2 The committee assert that the half-time system of the Factory Acts is for several reasons unadapted to the pottery trade.

2003 Lancs. Life Mar. 50/2 Tooth..stopped off at Stoke-in-Trent to pick up a few pointers about the pottery trade.

pottery ware n.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun]

clay-work1612

earthenwarea1624

pottery ware1633

pot-ware1661

earthware1713

ware1741

pottery1771

vitrefacture1841

ceramic1880

briquetage1902

1633 Will of Thomas Wadsworth in Long Buckby Wills 1558–1688 6 d for pottery wares 1s 6d for all other implements.

1771 J. Keir tr. P. J. Macquer Dict. Chem. I. 375 [Lead] makes the basis of the glazing of almost all pottery wares from the most ordinary kind to the finest.

1861 Amer. Agriculturist July 212/3 The others are of terra cotta, and may be bought at most manufacturies of pottery ware.

1990 P. Allardice Myth, Gods & Fantasy: Sourcebk. (BNC) An ancient Celtic god who features on coins and pottery ware.

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† pottery bark n. Obsolete rare the bark of a pottery tree, which can be mixed with clay to make heat-resistant pottery.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants used in paper, glass, or pottery manufacture > [noun] > pottery tree or bark

pottery bark1866

pottery tree1866

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > bark > [noun] > other bark

basteOE

bass1676

bonace bark1756

paperbarkc1837

stringy-bark1848

pottery bark1866

Adansonia1887

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 679/2 Several undetermined species of this genus [Licania] afford the Pottery bark, the ashes of which are used by the natives of the Amazon for mixing with the clay employed in the manufacture of pottery-ware, in order to enable the vessels to withstand the action of fire.

† pottery-bark tree n. Obsolete rare = pottery tree n.

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1890 Cent. Dict. at Licania L. Guianensis is called Cayenne rose and Cayenne sassafras, pepperwood, and pottery-bark tree, names indicating its character and uses.

pottery clay n. = pot clay n. at pot n.¹ Compounds 2.

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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > clay > [noun] > suitable for pottery

eartha1350

pot earth?a1450

slip1640

blue clay1698

figuline1859

pottery clay1869

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > clay > [noun] > for making pottery

eartha1350

potter's clay?a1425

potter's earth1440

pot earth?a1450

argil1530

pot clay1674

throwing clay1686

figuline1859

pottery clay1869

1869 R. F. Burton Explor. Highlands Brazil II. 305 The water froths against pure pottery-clay.

1921 Geol. S. Wales Coalfield (Mem. Geol. Surv. XIII) xii. 169 The isolated Bovey Tracey Beds of Devon, consisting in part of pottery clays..are supposed to have been laid down in a small, local lake-basin.

1962 W. Stegner Wolf Willow iv. ii. 250 Floods of settlers..all figured in the dream, as did..oil, pottery clay, glass sand, and other..resources.

2001 P. Ball Bright Earth iii. 64 The Babylonians made lead glazes simply by grinding the mineral galena (lead sulphide) to a fine dust and painting it on to the pottery clay.

† Pottery coal n. Obsolete rare coal from the Pottery Coalfield; Staffordshire coal.

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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun]

coal1253

sea-coal1253

pit-coal1483

cannel1541

earth coala1552

horse coal1552

Newcastle coal1552

stone-coal1585

cannel coal1587

parrot1594

burn-coal1597

lithanthrax1612

stony coal1617

Welsh coala1618

land-coala1661

foot coal1665

peacock coal1686

rough coal1686

white coal1686

heathen-coalc1697

coal-stone1708

round1708

stone-coal1708

bench-coal1712

slipper coal1712

black coal1713

culm1742

rock coal1750

board coal1761

Bovey coal1761

house coal1784

mineral coal1785

splint1789

splint coal1789

jet coal1794

anthracite1797

wood-coal1799

blind-coal1802

black diamond1803

silk-coal1803

glance-coal1805

lignite1808

Welsh stone-coal1808

soft1811

spout coals1821

spouter1821

Wallsend1821

brown coal1833

paper coal1833

steam-coal1850

peat-coal1851

cherry-coal1853

household1854

sinter coal1854

oil coal1856

raker1857

Kilkenny coal1861

Pottery coal1867

silkstone1867

block coal1871

admiralty1877

rattlejack1877

bunker1883

fusain1883

smitham1883

bunker coal1885

triping1886

trolley coal1890

kibble1891

sea-borne1892

jet1893

steam1897

sack coal1898

Welsh1898

navigation coal1900

Coalite1906

clarain1919

durain1919

vitrain1919

single1921

kolm1930

hards1956

1867 W. W. Smyth Treat. Coal & Coal-mining 58 Pottery coals and ironstone measures..with 8 to 13 seams of coal of above two feet thick..and 10 to 12 measures of ironstone.

Pottery Coalfield n. the coalfield around the Potteries in Staffordshire.

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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral sources > [noun] > tract of land > specific

Gold Coast1625

Pottery Coalfield1811

rand1839

golden mile1899

reef1903

1811 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 101 250 The triangular tract..to the westward.., forming the pottery coal-field, is much less raised.

1851 G. F. Richardson Introd. Geol. (1855) 435 The Coal-fields of England and Wales... 3. North Staffordshire sometimes called the Pottery coal-field.

1915 Geogr. Jrnl. 46 131 The radial system of folding which affects the Pottery Coalfield and neighbouring tracts of lower Carboniferous rocks comes to an apex within the area.

pottery gauge n. now rare a device used to shape and regulate the size of an article being manufactured on a potter's wheel.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > pottery manufacturing equipment > [noun] > shaper

pottery gauge1875

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1779/2 Pottery-gage, a shaper or templet for the inside of a vessel on the wheel.

pottery mould n. (also pottery mold) (a) a mould used to shape pottery; (b) English regional (northern) a shaped ‘brick’ of soft stone mixed with pipeclay, used for whitening hearths, etc.; a hearthstone (now rare); (c) a mould made of pottery.

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1857 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) I. 358/2 It [sc. gypsum] is also used for stereotype and pottery moulds, and for medals and casts of various kinds.

1924 J. H. Wilkinson Leeds Dial. Gloss. 170/1 The rag-and-bone man..would add ‘pottery-mouls [sic], weight for weight’, meaning he would exchange pottery moulds for the same weight of rags.

1937 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 6 May 13 (advt.) Oven ware pottery molds for chilled desserts, delicious custards, gelatine and tasty salads.

1987 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 19 July (Travel section) 7 Antique pottery molds and other items used in manufacturing the porcelain are also exhibited.

1998 Early Amer. Homes 82/2 Sugar cones were originally packed into tall, conical pottery molds, but you can get the same effect from a pilsner glass.

pottery oven n. (a) an oven used for firing pottery, a pottery kiln; (b) a cooking oven made of pottery.

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1792 J. Byng Diary 28 June in C. B. Andrews Torrington Diaries (1936) III. 127 Here I cross'd the Trent; and soon, many branches of navigation. These intersecting canals, with the passing boats.., the population, the pottery ovens..remind me of a Chinese picture.

1868 Sci. Amer. 11 Jan. 30/1 I claim a steam-pipe, in combination with a ‘fire-mouth’, for heating pottery ovens, kilns, and for other like ovens.

1906 Times 4 July 14/6 The dozens of sacrificial fires in pottery ovens for the roasting of the lambs..may still be traced.

1986 A. R. David Pyramid Builders of Anc. Egypt (1996) iii. 67 At the back of the house, a kitchen was situated,..with storage bins, a small brick or pottery oven in which to bake bread, an open hearth [etc.].

2004 T. Hemion Inspector Morimoto & Two Umbrellas xi. 68 Morimoto could see the brown, brick pottery ovens located throughout the village, which produced a distinctive pottery.

pottery tissue n. tissue paper on which engravings of impressions are stored prior to their transfer on to porcelain or earthenware items.

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1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) II. 452 A sheet of paper of the necessary size and of a peculiarly thin texture, called ‘pottery tissue,’ after being saturated with a thin solution of soap and water, is placed upon the copper plate.

a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1780/2 Pottery-tissue, a kind of tissue-paper used to receive impressions of engravings for transference to biscuit.

1996 Wheeling (West Virginia) News-Register (Nexis) 18 Aug. e1 The worker scraped off the excess ink, placed pottery tissue on top of the plate and ‘rubbed it good and hard’ so the design would transfer onto the paper.

pottery tree n. now rare any of several South American trees of the genus Licania (family Chrysobalanaceae), the bark of which is used in making heat-resistant earthenware, esp. Licania octandra (cf. pottery bark n.).

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants used in paper, glass, or pottery manufacture > [noun] > pottery tree or bark

pottery bark1866

pottery tree1866

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 679/2 at Licania The Indians call these trees Caraipe, but botanists have adopted that name for a genus of Ternströmiaceæ, owing to the Pottery tree having at one time been supposed to belong to that order.

1872 Amer. Naturalist 6 186 The ashes of the bark of the Pottery Tree of Para, whose cells are shown by the microscope to be silicated, is mixed with clay by the Indians, and made into a kind of earthenware which is very useful and durable.

1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) III. 1318/2 The natives..grind up the bark of M. utilis (Caraipi or Pottery Tree) to mix with an equal quantity of clay and make therewith domestic pottery capable of withstanding great heat.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pottery
释义	potteryn. Brit. /ˈpɒt(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈpɑdəri/ Forms: late Middle English potterye, 1600s (1700s Scottish) potterie, 1600s– pottery. Origin: A borrowing from French. Perhaps also partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: French poterie , potterie ; pot n.¹, -ery suffix. Etymology: < Middle French, French poterie, †potterie art of making pots (1260 in Old French), potter's workshop (13th cent. in Old French), piece of pottery (1337; now also as mass noun) < pot pot n.¹ + -erie -ery suffix. Compare post-classical Latin potaria , poteria potter's workshop (1086, c1270 respectively in British sources). In later use perhaps independently < pot n.¹ + -ery suffix; compare crockery n. 1. a. A potter's workshop; a factory where porcelain, earthenware, etc., is manufactured. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [noun] > pottery pottery1480 pothouse1673 potwork1681 piggery1818 mug-house1841 bank1843 pot-bank1888 1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 6 Pottes of erthe Cannes of erthe For to goo the watre Thise thinges shall ye fynde In the potterye [Fr. en le potterye]. 1702 W. Sacheverell Acct. Isle of Man 125 The new Pottery is a pretty Curiosity, set up by Mr. Smith the present Soveriegn, and his Predecessor Captain Leathes. 1780 J. Howard State Prisons Eng. & Wales (ed. 2) 156 A prison which had been a pottery. 1825 J. Bentham Rationale Reward 303 The potteries of Wedgwood and Bentley have excelled the porcelain of China. 1867 S. Smiles Huguenots Eng. & Ireland v. 115 Two potters from Antwerp..started a pottery, though in a very humble way. 1974 P. Gzowski Bk. about this Country 120/3 I'm a potter and because I was firing my kiln this morning, I wasn't able to leave the pottery until mid-afternoon. 1992 Antique Dealer & Collectors Guide Jan. 36/3 Attributing a piece to a pottery is difficult as many of the pot bank workers were migration labourers who travelled extensively in search of work. b. In plural. With the and capital initial. The area around Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, where the English pottery industry is based. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > England > [noun] > districts of England wealdOE Oxon.c1439 the Stannaries1455 Midland1555 Home Counties1695 Islandshire1705 lakes1774 file1775 potteries1795 the Shires1796 Tyneside1824 lakeland1829 Lake District1835 lake country1842 Wessex1868 Shakespeare country1900 Geordieland1901 cherry country1902 1795 Times 4 Nov. 3/4 A subscription is set on foot amongst the respectable inhabitants of the potteries in Staffordshire, for erecting public granaries, with steam-engines for grinding corn, for the better and cheaper supply of that populous country. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 485 The district called ‘the Potteries’, is an extensive tract of country in the hundred of North Pyrehill and county of Stafford, comprehending an area of about eight miles long, and six broad. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1009 A population of 60,000 operatives now derives a comfortable subsistence within a district..which contains 150 kilns, and is significantly called the Potteries. 1898 H. G. Wells War of Worlds i. xi. 80 It was the strangest spectacle, that black expanse set with fire. It reminded me, more than anything else, of the Potteries seen at night. 1948 Geogr. Jrnl. 111 174 About half the county boroughs are in the seven great industrial areas, London, South and East Lancashire, the West Riding, the Black Country, the Potteries, the North East Coast and South Wales. 1987 Workbox Spring–Summer 21/3 The original is believed to have been made in Stoke on Trent..and this reproduction also comes from the Potteries. 2005 Brit. Life Jan.–Feb. 7/1 Fine bone china of this type represents the very best of the historic ceramic tradition of Stoke-on-Trent, an area that is almost better known as The Potteries. 2. The art or craft of manufacturing porcelain, earthenware, etc.; ceramics. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > pottery-making or ceramics > [noun] potter craft?c1450 pottery1601 pot-makinga1649 potting1743 ceramic1859 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxiv. vii. 494 I shall haue fitter and better occasion to write thereof in my treatise of the art of Potterie, which the Greeks call Plastice [Fr. poterie, L. plasticen]. 1712 J. Morton Nat. Hist. Northants. 73 At Stoke-Bruerne is a blue Clay, that according to good Judges, wou'd be Excellent in Pottery. 1856 Times 19 Apr. 8/2 A collection of ceramic productions, illustrating the art of pottery, from the earliest specimens of antiquity, down to the latest works of the Imperial Manufactory of Sèvres. 1891 J. F. Nisbet Insanity of Genius 236 Pottery, when he [sc. Wedgwood] took it up, was a rude and barbarous manufacture; he raised it to the dignity of an art. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 441/2 The Ainu, on the contrary, never had any knowledge of pottery. 1943 Elem. School Jrnl. 44 69 Workshop facilities have been developed in order that..work may be carried on by teachers in various types of art, pottery, and handwork. 2004 Central Coast Express (Austral.) (Nexis) 1 Sept. Community members also pitched in to help the sports clubs by giving craft demonstrations in woodturning, silk painting, art, pottery and ceramics. 3. As a mass noun: pots, dishes, and other articles made of fired clay; pottery-ware, ceramics. Formerly also as a count noun: †a piece of this (obsolete).In technical and professional use pottery is divided into earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain (see those words), but in ordinary use the term is now often applied only to articles of earthenware, stoneware, etc., produced by traditional methods and having (relatively) low firing temperatures, as opposed to translucent, vitrified, frequently mass-produced ceramics like porcelain and china. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] clay-work1612 earthenwarea1624 pottery ware1633 pot-ware1661 earthware1713 ware1741 pottery1771 vitrefacture1841 ceramic1880 briquetage1902 1771 J. Keir tr. P. J. Macquer Dict. Chem. II. 565 We shall not describe the operation of making pottery, because we have already spoken of it under the articles Delf-ware and Porcelain, from which the common ware only differs, with regard to its manufacture, in its greater simplicity. 1785 J. Phillips Treat. Inland Navigation 21 Norwich goods, groceries, potteries, and other merchandise. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 484 The drab pottery is useful for articles which require strength to be united to ornament, as flower-pots, water-jugs, &c. 1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man ii. 10 The pottery found associated with weapons of bronze is of a more ornamental and tasteful style than any which belongs to the age of stone. 1888 M. E. Braddon Fatal Three I. v. 104 The shallow milk-pans were of Doulton pottery. 1925 W. Cather Professor's House ii. v. 220 I have seen a collection of early pottery from the island of Crete. 1965 B. Ross Mexico i. 21 They asked him where he had obtained the cloth and the pottery? 2002 J. Cartwright White Lightning xx. 177 The shop..sells African art, pots, beads, and masks,..as well as some local pottery. Compounds C1. General attributive. pottery kiln n. ΚΠ 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 821 The apparatus then resembles certain pottery kilns. 1876 D. Dennett Louisiana as it Is 65 An old Indian pottery kiln was found not far off, with some whole pots in it. 1980 Antiquaries Jrnl. 60 8 Six Romano-British pottery kilns were examined. 2005 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 23 Sept. 16 Firefighters were called to a Tyneside primary school after a pottery kiln overheated. pottery manufacture n. ΚΠ 1862 H. Spencer First Princ. ii. iii. §56. 202 Witness..the absorption by Staffordshire of the pottery-manufacture. 1880 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 135/2 It marks an era in pottery manufacture, whose results are the development of a new style of decoration. 1993 Antique Dealer Aug. 30/1 Few makers in England successfuly combined porcelain and pottery manufacture, but Minton kept making both. pottery market n. ΚΠ 1853 W. J. Hickie tr. Aristophanes Lysistrata in Comedies II. 416 In the pottery-market, and in the vegetable-market alike, they walk about..with arms. 1935 Times 8 June 11/6 Britain now holds 85 per cent. of the New Zealand pottery market. 2004 Peterborough Evening Telegraph (Nexis) 12 Aug. Crowds of shoppers crammed into the pottery market..to look at the ornate china. pottery painter n. ΚΠ 1876 ‘Ouida’ In Winter City iii What pleasant lives these pottery painters of the early days must have led. 1999 Independent (Nexis) 15 Mar. 7 Machin..was born in 1911 in Trent Vale to a family of potters..and seemed destined to remain a pottery painter until the slump in the pottery industry in North Staffordshire in 1929-30. pottery trade n. ΚΠ 1718 J. Tourefort de Pitton Voy. into Levant I. 312 The Samians were the first Inventors of the Pottery-Trade. 1863 Times 14 Dec. 9/2 The committee assert that the half-time system of the Factory Acts is for several reasons unadapted to the pottery trade. 2003 Lancs. Life Mar. 50/2 Tooth..stopped off at Stoke-in-Trent to pick up a few pointers about the pottery trade. pottery ware n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] clay-work1612 earthenwarea1624 pottery ware1633 pot-ware1661 earthware1713 ware1741 pottery1771 vitrefacture1841 ceramic1880 briquetage1902 1633 Will of Thomas Wadsworth in Long Buckby Wills 1558–1688 6 d for pottery wares 1s 6d for all other implements. 1771 J. Keir tr. P. J. Macquer Dict. Chem. I. 375 [Lead] makes the basis of the glazing of almost all pottery wares from the most ordinary kind to the finest. 1861 Amer. Agriculturist July 212/3 The others are of terra cotta, and may be bought at most manufacturies of pottery ware. 1990 P. Allardice Myth, Gods & Fantasy: Sourcebk. (BNC) An ancient Celtic god who features on coins and pottery ware. C2. † pottery bark n. Obsolete rare the bark of a pottery tree, which can be mixed with clay to make heat-resistant pottery. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants used in paper, glass, or pottery manufacture > [noun] > pottery tree or bark pottery bark1866 pottery tree1866 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > bark > [noun] > other bark basteOE bass1676 bonace bark1756 paperbarkc1837 stringy-bark1848 pottery bark1866 Adansonia1887 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 679/2 Several undetermined species of this genus [Licania] afford the Pottery bark, the ashes of which are used by the natives of the Amazon for mixing with the clay employed in the manufacture of pottery-ware, in order to enable the vessels to withstand the action of fire. † pottery-bark tree n. Obsolete rare = pottery tree n. ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. at Licania L. Guianensis is called Cayenne rose and Cayenne sassafras, pepperwood, and pottery-bark tree, names indicating its character and uses. pottery clay n. = pot clay n. at pot n.¹ Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > clay > [noun] > suitable for pottery eartha1350 pot earth?a1450 slip1640 blue clay1698 figuline1859 pottery clay1869 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > clay > [noun] > for making pottery eartha1350 potter's clay?a1425 potter's earth1440 pot earth?a1450 argil1530 pot clay1674 throwing clay1686 figuline1859 pottery clay1869 1869 R. F. Burton Explor. Highlands Brazil II. 305 The water froths against pure pottery-clay. 1921 Geol. S. Wales Coalfield (Mem. Geol. Surv. XIII) xii. 169 The isolated Bovey Tracey Beds of Devon, consisting in part of pottery clays..are supposed to have been laid down in a small, local lake-basin. 1962 W. Stegner Wolf Willow iv. ii. 250 Floods of settlers..all figured in the dream, as did..oil, pottery clay, glass sand, and other..resources. 2001 P. Ball Bright Earth iii. 64 The Babylonians made lead glazes simply by grinding the mineral galena (lead sulphide) to a fine dust and painting it on to the pottery clay. † Pottery coal n. Obsolete rare coal from the Pottery Coalfield; Staffordshire coal. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun] coal1253 sea-coal1253 pit-coal1483 cannel1541 earth coala1552 horse coal1552 Newcastle coal1552 stone-coal1585 cannel coal1587 parrot1594 burn-coal1597 lithanthrax1612 stony coal1617 Welsh coala1618 land-coala1661 foot coal1665 peacock coal1686 rough coal1686 white coal1686 heathen-coalc1697 coal-stone1708 round1708 stone-coal1708 bench-coal1712 slipper coal1712 black coal1713 culm1742 rock coal1750 board coal1761 Bovey coal1761 house coal1784 mineral coal1785 splint1789 splint coal1789 jet coal1794 anthracite1797 wood-coal1799 blind-coal1802 black diamond1803 silk-coal1803 glance-coal1805 lignite1808 Welsh stone-coal1808 soft1811 spout coals1821 spouter1821 Wallsend1821 brown coal1833 paper coal1833 steam-coal1850 peat-coal1851 cherry-coal1853 household1854 sinter coal1854 oil coal1856 raker1857 Kilkenny coal1861 Pottery coal1867 silkstone1867 block coal1871 admiralty1877 rattlejack1877 bunker1883 fusain1883 smitham1883 bunker coal1885 triping1886 trolley coal1890 kibble1891 sea-borne1892 jet1893 steam1897 sack coal1898 Welsh1898 navigation coal1900 Coalite1906 clarain1919 durain1919 vitrain1919 single1921 kolm1930 hards1956 1867 W. W. Smyth Treat. Coal & Coal-mining 58 Pottery coals and ironstone measures..with 8 to 13 seams of coal of above two feet thick..and 10 to 12 measures of ironstone. Pottery Coalfield n. the coalfield around the Potteries in Staffordshire. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > mineral sources > [noun] > tract of land > specific Gold Coast1625 Pottery Coalfield1811 rand1839 golden mile1899 reef1903 1811 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 101 250 The triangular tract..to the westward.., forming the pottery coal-field, is much less raised. 1851 G. F. Richardson Introd. Geol. (1855) 435 The Coal-fields of England and Wales... 3. North Staffordshire sometimes called the Pottery coal-field. 1915 Geogr. Jrnl. 46 131 The radial system of folding which affects the Pottery Coalfield and neighbouring tracts of lower Carboniferous rocks comes to an apex within the area. pottery gauge n. now rare a device used to shape and regulate the size of an article being manufactured on a potter's wheel. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > pottery manufacturing equipment > [noun] > shaper pottery gauge1875 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1779/2 Pottery-gage, a shaper or templet for the inside of a vessel on the wheel. pottery mould n. (also pottery mold) (a) a mould used to shape pottery; (b) English regional (northern) a shaped ‘brick’ of soft stone mixed with pipeclay, used for whitening hearths, etc.; a hearthstone (now rare); (c) a mould made of pottery. ΚΠ 1857 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) I. 358/2 It [sc. gypsum] is also used for stereotype and pottery moulds, and for medals and casts of various kinds. 1924 J. H. Wilkinson Leeds Dial. Gloss. 170/1 The rag-and-bone man..would add ‘pottery-mouls [sic], weight for weight’, meaning he would exchange pottery moulds for the same weight of rags. 1937 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 6 May 13 (advt.) Oven ware pottery molds for chilled desserts, delicious custards, gelatine and tasty salads. 1987 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 19 July (Travel section) 7 Antique pottery molds and other items used in manufacturing the porcelain are also exhibited. 1998 Early Amer. Homes 82/2 Sugar cones were originally packed into tall, conical pottery molds, but you can get the same effect from a pilsner glass. pottery oven n. (a) an oven used for firing pottery, a pottery kiln; (b) a cooking oven made of pottery. ΚΠ 1792 J. Byng Diary 28 June in C. B. Andrews Torrington Diaries (1936) III. 127 Here I cross'd the Trent; and soon, many branches of navigation. These intersecting canals, with the passing boats.., the population, the pottery ovens..remind me of a Chinese picture. 1868 Sci. Amer. 11 Jan. 30/1 I claim a steam-pipe, in combination with a ‘fire-mouth’, for heating pottery ovens, kilns, and for other like ovens. 1906 Times 4 July 14/6 The dozens of sacrificial fires in pottery ovens for the roasting of the lambs..may still be traced. 1986 A. R. David Pyramid Builders of Anc. Egypt (1996) iii. 67 At the back of the house, a kitchen was situated,..with storage bins, a small brick or pottery oven in which to bake bread, an open hearth [etc.]. 2004 T. Hemion Inspector Morimoto & Two Umbrellas xi. 68 Morimoto could see the brown, brick pottery ovens located throughout the village, which produced a distinctive pottery. pottery tissue n. tissue paper on which engravings of impressions are stored prior to their transfer on to porcelain or earthenware items. ΚΠ 1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) II. 452 A sheet of paper of the necessary size and of a peculiarly thin texture, called ‘pottery tissue,’ after being saturated with a thin solution of soap and water, is placed upon the copper plate. a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1780/2 Pottery-tissue, a kind of tissue-paper used to receive impressions of engravings for transference to biscuit. 1996 Wheeling (West Virginia) News-Register (Nexis) 18 Aug. e1 The worker scraped off the excess ink, placed pottery tissue on top of the plate and ‘rubbed it good and hard’ so the design would transfer onto the paper. pottery tree n. now rare any of several South American trees of the genus Licania (family Chrysobalanaceae), the bark of which is used in making heat-resistant earthenware, esp. Licania octandra (cf. pottery bark n.). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants used in paper, glass, or pottery manufacture > [noun] > pottery tree or bark pottery bark1866 pottery tree1866 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 679/2 at Licania The Indians call these trees Caraipe, but botanists have adopted that name for a genus of Ternströmiaceæ, owing to the Pottery tree having at one time been supposed to belong to that order. 1872 Amer. Naturalist 6 186 The ashes of the bark of the Pottery Tree of Para, whose cells are shown by the microscope to be silicated, is mixed with clay by the Indians, and made into a kind of earthenware which is very useful and durable. 1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) III. 1318/2 The natives..grind up the bark of M. utilis (Caraipi or Pottery Tree) to mix with an equal quantity of clay and make therewith domestic pottery capable of withstanding great heat. 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