[
US
/ˈstoʊnˌwɛɹ/
]
[ UK /stˈəʊnweə/ ]
[ UK /stˈəʊnweə/ ]
NOUN
- ceramic ware that is fired in high heat and vitrified and nonporous
How To Use stoneware In A Sentence
- There are pots and pans to hand-built pieces and sculptures in stoneware pottery.
- This image evolved over the decades, and the moonshiner became fixed as a corncob-pipe-smoking craftsman filling stoneware jugs with a clear and tasty elixir while keeping an eye out for pesky revenuers. Hipster Moonshine
- This was a school that looked to the ceramics of Picasso rather than the functional stoneware pottery of Bernard Leach.
- If was used to imitate Josiah Wedgwood's rosso ant-leo and black basalt stoneware and was often decorated.
- Above and close to each nitrator stands its acid store tank, of iron or stoneware. Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
- They specialise in hand-make stoneware pottery that is both attractive and useful.
- Vietnamese potters in the clay-rich Red River Valley near the northern border with China had learned to make high-fired stoneware from the Chinese, somewhere around the first to third century. Vietnamese Vessels for the Heart and Soul
- The company has been buying much of its stoneware in China, but its fine china is still manufactured at its own plants in Britain.
- These grandly baroque pieces in polished red stoneware are precursors of the white porcelain that was to follow in the 1730s and 40s.
- Stoneware is tough and cannot be scratched.