| Encyclopaedias, John Millard - Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1813 - 712 pages
...Delft Ware, so calltd because first made at Delft in Holland, is a kind of pottery of baked earth, covered with an enamel or white glazing, which gives it the appearance of porcelain. The basis ot this pottery is clay mixed with a certain quantity of sand-; the vessels are slightly... | |
| John Millard - Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc - 1813 - 704 pages
...Di'.lft Ware, so railed because first made at J>elft in Holland, is a kind of pottery of baked earth, covered with an enamel or white glazing, which gives it the appearance ni' porcelain. The basis of this pottery is clay mixed with a certain quantity of sand; the vessels... | |
| John Mason Good - 1819 - 822 pages
...the name of Delft-ware. Lat. 52. 4 N. l Jon. 4. 24 E. DELFT-WARE, a kind of pottery of baked earth, covered with an enamel or white glazing, which gives it the appearance and neatness ot porcelain. Some kinds of this enamelled iiottery differ much from others, either in... | |
| William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 426 pages
...the clerk of the crown wishes him a good deliverance. DELFT ware, a kind of pottery of baked earth, covered with an enamel or white glazing, which gives it the appearance and neatness of porcelain. Some kinds of this enamelled pottery differ much from others, either in... | |
| William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 424 pages
...the clerk of the crown wishes him a good deliverance. DELFT ware, a kind of pottery of haked earth, covered with an enamel or white glazing, which gives it the appearance and neatness of porcelain. Some kinds of this enamelled pottery differ much from others, either in... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 896 pages
...on the river Sine, in E. Long. 4. 13. N. Lat. 52. 6. DeLFT-Warc, a kind of pottery of baked earth, covered with an enamel or white glazing, which gives it the appearance and neatness of porcelain. Some kinds of this enamelled pottery difler much from others, either in... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...machines could suffice to lay and keep them dry. Ray. DELFT WARE is a kind of pottery of a baked earth, d for T. Tegg and neatness of porcelain. Some kinds of it differ much from others, 'either in sustaining sudden heat... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - Domestic animals - 1833 - 478 pages
...and afterwards stuck on the outside of the vessel. DELFT. WARE is a kind of pottery of baked earth, covered with an enamel, or white glazing, which gives it the appearance of porcelain. It is sometimes ornamented with painting* of figures, &c. The basis of this pottery is clay, which... | |
| John Lauris Blake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1834 - 1028 pages
...DELFT-WARE. So called because first made at Delft in Holland, is a kind of pottery of baked earth, covered with an enamel or white glazing, which gives it the appearance of porcelain. The basis of this pottery is clay, mixed with a certain quantity of sand; the vessels are slightly... | |
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