单词 | rockingham |
释义 | Rockinghamn. attributive. Designating earthenware, china, glaze, etc., produced on the estate of the second Marquess of Rockingham at Swinton, South Yorkshire, from c1745 to 1842, or products, esp. tea services, resembling these in style. Frequently in Rockingham ware. Also absol.: china or earthenware of this kind. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [adjective] > types of English pottery Liverpool1750 Wedgwood1787 Mason1804 Plymouth1816 Rockingham1840 Leeds1863 Jackfield1866 Spode1869 Whieldon1869 Minton1871 Doulton1873 Toft1878 Lambeth1884 Wrotham1884 metropolitan1891 Astbury1904 Pratt1920 Malling1933 1840 Era 2 Aug. 543/4 (advt.) Rockingham Ware-house.—The Griffin, 232, Piccadilly. 1842 Bristol Mercury 24 Sept. 1/1 (advt.) Patent brown stone and Rockingham ware. 1869 C. Schreiber Jrnl. 4 Nov. (1911) I. 60 3 Rockingham cups and saucers and 3 plates. 1870 C. Schreiber Jrnl. 11 Feb. (1911) I. 66 A few good bits of Chelsea,..one of Rockingham (very good). 1900 F. Litchfield Pottery & Porcelain vii. 94 The ware is highly glazed, some of it being not unlike the brown Rockingham ware. 1935 G. Greene Eng. made Me ii. 57 The Minister stood above his Rockingham china. 1957 C. W. Mankowitz & R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Eng. Pottery & Porcelain 194/1 ‘Rockingham’ glaze, a lustrous, purple-brown lead glaze (stained with manganese) made at the Rockingham factory, Swinton, early nineteenth century, and in Staffordshire. 1960 R. Collier House called Memory xii. 171 Croquet on the lawn at four o'clock with the Rockingham tea-service as background. 1965 A. Christie At Bertram's Hotel i. 10 The china, if not actually Rockingham and Davenport, looked like it. 1973 L. Cooper Tea on Sunday 11 The dark blue and gold Rockingham cup. 2007 Star (Sheffield) (Nexis) 24 Apr. The meat plate is really the choice piece in the collection—it's the biggest piece of Rockingham ware ever discovered. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1840 |
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