Examples
“Made of a light-buff clay, and known as delftware, the tiles unearthed are decorated in blue, with a conventionalized design in each corner and”
New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America
“A video piece of handwashing by Bruce Naumann sits comfortably with a splendid display of Delft tiles; and a blue-and-white chamber pot and several life-size sofa-type objects with their "backs" made from tons of processed human feces somehow go nicely with the 1661 English delftware plate deflatingly inscribed "You and I are Earth.”
“Mr. Sainsbury was passionate about English delftware pottery, and there are 80 lots in the sale all dating to the 1600s, including plates, tankards, jugs, wine bottles and vases.”
“The shopwindows in this district were full of delftware—a cross between pewter and bone in broad daylight—and slabs of Belgian chocolate that stood as solid and brown as the earth itself.”
“To their left, under a dome of palms, was a marble basin, on the edges of which four large swans of delftware emitted the water from their beaks.”
“Striding towards the banquet-table with his flouncing companion at his side, Crockett secured a large delftware platter and commenced to fill it with a prodigious quantity of viands.”
“I have seen a man and wife drinking coffee from one small tin pan, their china and delftware having been left in fragments to decorate the desert wayside.”
“Visions of blue and white delftware passed through our minds as we entered the old town, which hardly looks as though worldly automobilists would be well received.”
“If you know delftware you will know from the delicate colouring of the blues and whites which is old and which is not.”
“English sgraffito-ware, several incomplete earthenware holders, and parts of delftware candlesticks.”
New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘delftware’.
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (D)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
desert rose, dabble, daffodil, dagger, dairymaid, daisy, damask, damson, dappled, dart, dashed, dauphin and 111 more...
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My Modern Job in the Past
Words I come across at work.
Now stripped of most military terms, which have found a new home on the list Historical Military Terms of Interest. See also (and add to!) hilarious misspe...chaise-marine, delft, delftware, quince, tympan, cresset, navvy, venn diagram, poop deck, apothecary, heliotrope, millinery and 294 more...
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Underworld
Don DeLillo
roily, reverie, slidy, bandido, mohair, brilliantine, stupe, juke step, jowly, juke, wicket, quidbit and 391 more...
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W.E.L.D.E.R.
réchauffé, gast, dere, heller, arête, wair, tut, shad, tipi, emeu, codon, unco and 65 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for delftware.
chained_bear Tin-glazed earthenware with blue and white decorations. See also Delft. Feb 2, 2007