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porcelain

[pawr-suh-lin, pohr-, pawrs-lin, pohrs-] / ˈpɔr sə lɪn, ˈpoʊr-, ˈpɔrs lɪn, ˈpoʊrs- /
NOUN
earthenware
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NOUN
ceramic
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A woman approached the stall where Vadym and his wife, who sells porcelain, had laid out what they had left, and asked the price of an elegant lamp with a cream-coloured shade.

From Barron's Aug. 20, 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

In her studio, surrounded by shelves of porcelain figures she recovered from Altadena and refired, she fashions whimsical sculptures imitating feminine figures and feline forms.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

Rogers Jones Auctioneers are selling Young's original working drawings for his celebrated porcelain.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

“Chan’s Art Emporium on Apablasa Street. We import furniture, brass, porcelain, all sorts of antiques from China.”

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

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

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

In the 1970s, he pronounced a wealthy collector’s Chinese porcelains fake — a declaration confirmed by experts from the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art.

From Washington Post Aug. 19, 2020

The latter piece, titled “The Barmecide Feast,” is well built — down to the corny Late Empire porcelains employed as backdrop on the luminous white set.

From Los Angeles Times May 1, 2017

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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