porcelain
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Furniture, vessels, porcelain, silver and a sampling of household goods populate a display that’s nonhierarchical.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Most of the porcelain was made for the European market, underscoring a subtext of cross-fertilization, already stated by Islamic ceramics imitating Chinese blue and white.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Portugal's Vista Alegre, the oldest and largest porcelain maker in the Iberian country, decided to install energy storage systems in 2022, seizing the opportunity of abundant funds from the EU's Recovery and Resilience Plan.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Shards of glass and porcelain crunched under Vadym's feet as he walked through the remains of his shop.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
I stared at the toilet: a perfect porcelain bowl, set in the floor with rose-colored tiles arranged all around in an abstract mosaic.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
In a clever piece of installation design, shelves built around the screen bring the painting’s illusions to life, displaying real bronzes, porcelains, texts and scholarly objects from Lee’s collection—modern curation fulfilling classical cultural capital.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
By the late fifteenth century, Ottoman ships were trading with India, and goods such as Chinese silks and porcelains furnished the homes of the wealthy in Istanbul.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Their lives and possessions — their ivories and porcelains, their prayer books and sketchbooks — map a century of forced migration, colonial expansion and absorption into high society.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
Lauren is a ceramic artist whose porcelains sport signature grotesqueries, usually of a squirmy sort, such as a teapot with “a revolting brown worm crawling along the spout,” and “a slug depicted on the underside.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2023
More or less independent later experiments in France and England led to Sevres, Wedgwood, and Spode porcelains.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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