earthen-ware

Reminds me of the aphorisim glazed onto an earthen-ware pitcher we used to have sitting on top of the china cabinet in the ancestral demesne -- "Those who have money are worried about it, those who have none are worried without it."

Gray morning jhetley 2006

There was no furniture in either, except matted platforms for sleeping upon, a few coarse pipkins, a red earthen-ware pitcher or two, and some calabashes.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

The goods sold in the Market-place seemed tawdry and cheap: shoddy earthen-ware statuary from Thoradin replaced the customary carved stone, the scrimshaw from Balifor seemed abstract and rushed, and the scaleless fish from northern Karthay was the worst of all failures.

The Dark Queen Williams, Michael, 1952 Dec. 17- 1994

She smiled weakly at them, seized an earthen-ware jug, and drained it in one gulp.

David and the Phoenix Edward Ormondroyd

It is afterwards placed upon very thin plates of earthen-ware, or iron, and exposed to the heat of a charcoal fire, which draws all the moisture from the leaves, and renders them dry and crisp.

Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side Frances Bowyer Vaux

Aquæ Ductibus_, mentions earthen-ware tubes, used however for aqueducts, rather for conveying water from place to place, than for draining lands for agriculture.

Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French

The two silver teaspoons was burnished up, and stuck for show into the edge of the dresser; the three glass tumblers was sot forth in full view; and the tin coffee-pot, so high and so narrer at the top, was turned sideways on the shelf, so as to make the most on 't; and the little brown earthen-ware teapot was histed atop o 'that.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various

A friend who wished to present him with an earthen-ware cup, asked him what device he would have upon it.

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

Arabic charm, and afterwards placing by the bedside three earthen-ware pots filled with corn, and containing each a lighted lamp.

Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia John Milton Mackie

Small boxes were opened, and the contents laid on plates: sandwiches, cakes, sweetmeats, fruit, and wine, red and white, in skins, poured into empty earthen-ware jugs in which to cool it.

Desert Love Joan Conquest