china-ware

Surely there never was such fragile china-ware as that of which the millers of Coketown were made.

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The Mekkawys are very expensive in their houses: the rooms are embellished with fine carpets, and an abundance of cushions and sofas covered with brocade: amidst the furniture is seen much beautiful china-ware, and several nargiles adorned with silver.

Travels in Arabia 2003

A friend, wishing to give the boy and his sister a present of china-ware, asked him what device he would choose to ornament his with.

The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various

Instead of crust, which it looked like, its cover was of china-ware; and Uncle Roger raised it in his hand when every one had sat down all round the table, and there -- what do you think?

The Story of a Robin Agnes S. Underwood

Wooden vessels and platters supplied the place of our modern plates and china-ware; and a "tin cup was an article of delicate furniture, almost as rare as an iron-fork [12]," The beds were either placed on the floor, or on bedsteads of puncheons, supported by forked pieces of timber, driven into the ground, or resting on pins let into auger-holes in the sides of the cabin.

Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin

It was made in what I judged must be some old form of china-ware I never remembered to have seen before, and beneath the dirt which was thickly coated over it I could see that both the modelling and colouring of it were very beautiful.

The Tale of Lal A Fantasy Raymond Paton

As to the china-ware and the vases, no house was ever so stocked; and as for such trifles as shawls and fans and silk handkerchiefs, why such things were sent not singly but by dozens.

Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

As I went homeward through the maze of dirty streets towards where my garret was situated, I had to pass through one where the outside pavement stalls were always heaped up upon either side of the way with every imaginable thing from greengrocery and scrap-iron to old prints and china-ware.

The Tale of Lal A Fantasy Raymond Paton

These fragments are readily distinguished by painted flowers, or unique designs enameled in red, blue, or purple colors upon the pure white ground-surface of the china-ware.

History of the Donner Party, a Tragedy of the Sierra

The tradition of Asiatic supremacy in these manufactures has been preserved to our own day in such familiar names as damask linen, china-ware, japanned ware, Persian rugs, and cashmere shawls.

A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923