| 单词 | agateware |
| 释义 | > as lemmasagateware agateware n. (a) a kind of striped or variegated pottery made to resemble agate, usually by mixing coloured clays together; (b) enamelled ironware or steel ware for household utensils (now rare). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > pottery of specific colour white ware1577 yellow ware1764 pearl white1779 cream-ware1780 Egyptian black1784 greyware1793 agateware1817 pearl pottery1825 brown ware1836 pearlware1842 black pot1851 cane colour1866 tortoiseshell ware1879 1817 W. Pitt Topogr. Hist. Staffs. 421 Another variety of ware, termed Agate Ware, was produced by the addition of ground zaffer. 1859 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 433/2 During the reigns of Anne and George I. an improved ware was made of sand and pipe-clay coloured with oxide of copper and manganese, forming the well-known agate-ware and tortoiseshell-ware. 1865 L. Jewitt Wedgwoods Index 423/1 Agate-ware vases. 1896 A. B. Dyer Handbk. Light Artillery 495 1 best steel bread-knife... 1 agate-ware teapot. 1921 S. J. MacLeod Housecleaning made Easier 20 Enameled ware and agateware are made by coating iron or steel with enamel or glaze. 2007 J. Connell Coloring Clay i. 14 Coloured-clay techniques are all around us if we look for them, but perhaps the most familiar to most of us is that known as agateware. < as lemmas |
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