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stoneware Definition

stone·ware (stōnwer′)

noun

a dense, opaque, glazed or unglazed pottery containing clay, silica, and feldspar and fired at a high heat

stoneware Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • glaze: All her work is raw glazed, slip-decorated stoneware which, once fired is soda glazed with sodium compounds other than salt.
  • decorate: There are many interesting and unique things for sale in the shop, from fairy houses sculpted using various clays to handmade decorated stoneware.
  • fire: I started painting with under glazes onto fine white stoneware fired in an electric kiln.
  • produce: Main Interests Now I devote much of my time to producing decorative stoneware each piece differing subtly from any other.
  • make: By 1782 John Hope had married Thomas's widow and was engaged in making brown stoneware at the pottery.
  • oxidize: I now make mainly multi-coloured slipware, but still enjoy making oxidized stoneware, and Raku.

Adjective modifier

  • domestic: Also a full range of practical and useful domestic stoneware.
  • fine: I started painting with under glazes onto fine white stoneware fired in an electric kiln.
  • white: I started painting with under glazes onto fine white stoneware fired in an electric kiln.
  • brown: Similar brown stoneware bowls were in fashion at the end of the 19th century, being phased out in favor of white bowls.
  • German: These had a similar fabric to the previous assemblage, save one piece of German stoneware.
  • decorative: Main Interests Now I devote much of my time to producing decorative stoneware each piece differing subtly from any other.

Modifies a noun

  • jug: A broken Ray Finch jug, a large stoneware jug by Ray Finch, made in 1996.
  • clay: Made of stoneware clay, they can be placed outdoors.
  • jar: This fragment of a brown stoneware jar lies on the earth among the emerging brassica seedlings.
  • pottery: In the ceiling of Workshop 3, where stoneware pottery is produced, remains of an old track can be seen.
  • bottle: Arranged in the center of the bar are stoneware bottles once used for ginger beer.
  • pot: John Leach Pottery Wood fired oven to table stoneware pots.

Used with adjective complement

glaze: These were made at the Lambeth factory, in salt glaze stoneware, seven inches high, colored blue and stone.

Noun used with modifier

salt-glazed: The pottery was founded in 1672 by John Dwight, the first person in England to make salt-glazed stoneware commercially.

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