单词 | queen's ware |
释义 | > as lemmasqueen's ware queen's ware n. a cream-coloured Wedgwood earthenware; (also) a kind of stoneware.So called after Queen Charlotte (1744–1818, consort of George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland), who gave royal patronage to J. Wedgwood on account of this ware. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > English pottery > by Wedgwood > types of queen's ware1767 Etruscan1768 pebble1768 rosso antico1776 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > stoneware > types of brownstone1761 ironstone china1814 stone-china1825 lava ware1860 grès de Flandres1872 queen's ware1872 Doulton ware1874 tiger-ware1874 scratched blue1883 Rhenish stoneware1897 protoporcelain1904 scratch blue1924 1767 J. Wedgwood Let. in Sel. Lett. (1965) 58 The demand for this said Creamcolour, Alias Queens Ware, Alias Ivory still increases. 1783 J. Wedgwood in Philos. Trans. 1782 (Royal Soc.) 72 320 Delft ware is fired by a heat of 40 or 41°; cream-coloured or Queen's ware, by 86°. 1788 A. Young Jrnl. 22 Aug. in Trav. France (1792) i. 79 English goods..hard and queen's ware; cloths and cottons. 1863 W. Chaffers Marks & Monograms Pottery & Porcelain 120 The principal inventions of Wedgwood were, 1, the cream-coloured table ware, afterwards called Queen's ware; [etc.]. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It lix. 432 By and by he went home to his lodgings—an empty queensware hogshead,—and employed himself till night trying to make up his mind what to buy with it. 1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 49/2 Sanitary appliances in action, and general Queen's Ware. 1900 F. Litchfield Pottery & Porcelain iii. 32 [Thomas Whieldon's] celebrated cream ware, called ‘Queen's ware’. 1906 Dial. Notes 3 152 Queensware,..ordinary crockery. ‘You can get queensware at Hansard's grocery or the ten-cent store.’ 1961 Connoisseur New Guide to Antique Eng. Pottery, Porcelain & Glass 54 [Wedgwood's] Queensware was copied by most of the potters of his time. 2005 Brit. Life Jan. 9/2 Wedgwood set up in business at Burslem, eventually perfecting an elegant yet durable cream-coloured earthenware called Queen's Ware. < as lemmas |
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