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Example sentences for "delftware"

Lexicographically close words:
deleterious; deleting; deletion; deletions; delf; deli; deliberate; deliberated; deliberately; deliberateness
  1. Delftware there is, in abundance, for the delectation of the tourist and the profit of the curio merchant, who will sell it unblushingly as a rare old piece, when it was made but a year ago.

  2. 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.

  3. If you know delftware you will know from the delicate colouring of the blues and whites which is old and which is not.

  4. Most of the delftware unearthed at Jamestown was made in England (Lambeth, Southwark, and Bristol), although a few examples were imported from Holland.

  5. Candlesticks unearthed at Jamestown include a large brass pricket holder, one made of English sgraffito-ware, several incomplete earthenware holders, and parts of delftware candlesticks.

  6. There is Delftware made now, but it is not prized like the old kind.

  7. It was in this place that long ago the famous blue and white Delftware was made, like that the mother has at home," said Mynheer.

  8. The most readily identifiable were sherds of English delftware of many forms and styles of decoration related to the second half of the 17th century.

  9. They were apparently forced from the market by the refinement of taste that developed in the 18th century and by the delftware of Bristol and London and Liverpool that was so much more in keeping with that taste.

  10. The delftware of London and Bristol and the yellow wares of Bristol and Staffordshire became preferable to the soft and imperfect sgraffito ware.

  11. A single fragment of a polychrome Bristol delftware charger, with nails and window-glass fragments, was found in the builder's trench at the southern extremity of the northern section of the west foundation (deposit T.

  12. Such a use of potters' refuse has ample precedent in that the wasters and sagger fragments from the 17th-century-London delftware kilns were dumped on the foreshore of the river Thames to serve the same purpose.

  13. Numerous fragments of English delftware were found scattered through the filling from top to bottom, most of them in very poor condition.

  14. Somewhat surprisingly, the stratum also contained part of a plate comparable to the delftware charger from Pit B, though the date of the deposit was probably 20 or more years later.

  15. Dating: The construction date for the house relies on the insufficient evidence of the single delftware sherd mentioned above, i.

  16. Waste products from London delftware kilns were used to build up the north foreshore of the River Thames between Queenhithe and Dowgate in the City of London.

  17. It also points up the fact that delftware early went out of fashion among well-to-do families.


  18. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "delftware" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.