During a lull in the conversation, Wang points to an antique earthenware pot sitting on a lacquered stand.
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One of the most attractive of places -- Mediterranean-African in design, with a tented "garden, " earthenware dishes and flickering candles.
First come the earthenware soldiers, more than two feet high and some on horseback, as guardians of the tomb entrance.
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To interpret the painting, I started with a brown earthenware vessel that might easily have come from a French country farmhouse.
Here visitors are greeted with a large and arrestingly modern earthenware bowl.
Vermeer's "Milkmaid" (c. 1660) is not shown beside an earthenware jug, nor is Rembrandt's "The Jewish Bride" (1667) hung beneath a wedding canopy.
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In the first of the show's two small galleries are two striking lidded earthenware vessels reminiscent of the much earlier ritual bronzes in Sackler's collection.
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So delicious was their creation named after cassole, the glazed earthenware pot in which it was cooked that the townsfolk of Castelnaudary quickly deployed their renewed strength.
Over time, three major pottery types developed: earthenware, stoneware and porcelain, each distinguished by the type of clay used and the temperature at which it is fired.
Instead there is a kitchen with cooking pots, wine vessels and glasses, and a case filled with earthenware dancers, the sleeves of their robes swirling in the breeze.
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The resulting dish is served in an earthenware pot called a caquelon, which sits above a portable stove to ensure a constantly bubbling mixture, and long forks dip and swirl country-style bread into the pot.
Made of cream-colored earthenware, the vase is hand-painted with polychrome enamels and gold over passages of ivory and luster glaze each glaze and area of color or gold required a separate kiln firing at specific, carefully controlled temperatures.
Another Singer favorite enlivens a case of miniatures a delectable palm-size morsel of earthenware from the first half of the 8th century, during the Tang dynasty, energetically depicting two musicians precariously perched on the back of a braying camel.
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U5: Earthenware pottery-making skills were included in 2010 in the Kgatleng district inventory of intangible cultural heritage that is managed by Phuthadikoba Museum and the Department of Arts and Culture of the Ministry of Youth, Sport and Culture.
Women of the Bakgatla ba Kgafela community of Botswana practice earthenware pottery-making skills using clay soil, weathered sandstone and other materials to make pots of different forms, designs and styles that relate to the traditional rituals and beliefs of the community.
Some 20, 000 pieces--including arms, armour, ceramics, earthenware, seals and decorative arts from ancient Persia, Mamluk Egypt and the Mughal emperors in India and Kuwait of the Bronze Age--were packed in crates and driven to the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad in a 17-lorry convoy.
The flooring is dark, the passageways plain and the lighting democratic, giving shards of earthenware as much attention as finely woven rugs from Iran, a jewel-encrusted dagger from Mughal India or 14th-century enameled blown-glass lamps from Egypt and Syria that are about as close to numinous as objects can get.
There were green picnic tables set out beneath the shade trees full with foliage, and on this sunny weekend afternoon there were waiters in braided white coats moving swiftly about, balancing trays laden with bottles and pitchers and plates, and men of every age gathered at each of the tables, smoking cigarettes and pipes and cigars and drinking deeply from tall beakers and earthenware mugs.
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