Potters Sentence Examples

In the I3th century, however, the introduction 01 tea from China, together with vessels for infusing and serving it revealed to the Japanese a new conception of ceramic possibilities for the potters of the Middle Kingdom had then (Sung dynasty) fully entered the road which was destined to carry them ultimately to a high pinnacle of their craft.

The third clearly differentiated epoch was inaugurated by the discovery of true kaolin at Izumi-yama in Hizen, the discoverer being one of the Korean potters who came to Japan in the train of Hideyoshis generals returning from the invasion of Korea, and the date of the discovery being about 1605.

Owari abounds in porcelain stone; but it does not occur in constant or particularly simple forms, and as the potters have not yet learned to treat their materials scientifically, their work is often marred by unforeseen difficulties.

Taking the renowned yao-pien-yao, or transmutation ware of China as a model, the Takatori potters endeavoured, by skilful mixing of coloring materials, to reproduce the wonderful effects of oxidization seen in the Chinese ware.

The potters of the Middle Kingdom, from the early eras of the Ming dynasty down to the latest years of the 18th century, stood absolutely without rivals as makers of porcelain.

In all that region of achievement the Chinese potters stood alone and seemingly unapproachable.

But as European and American collectors became better acquainted with the capacities of the pre-Meiji potters, the great inferiority of these new specimens was recognized, and the prices commanded by the old wares gradually appreciated.

Nor is it to be supposed that the ancient capital now lacks great potters.

Even during the 300 years of its conspicuous prosperity as the administrative capital of the Tokugawa shoguns, it had no noted factories, doubtless owing to the absence of any suitable potters clay in the immediate vicinity.

It can scarcely be doubted that the true instincts of the ceramist will ultimately counsel him to confine his decoration over the glaze to vitrifiable enamels, with which the Chinese and Japanese potters of former times obtained such brilliant results.

The Owari potters were slow to follow the lead of Miyagawa ShOzan and Seif YOhei.

Its potters took fiamb glazes for models, and their pieces possessed an air of novelty that attracted connoisseurs.

But the style was not calculated to win general popularity, and the manufacturing processes were too easy to occupy the attention of great potters.

In subsequent eras the potters of King-te-chen did not fail to continue this remarkable manufacture, but its only Japanese representative was a porcelain distinctly inferior In more than one respect, namely, the egg-shell utensils of Hizen and Hirado, some of which had finely woven basket-cases to protect their extreme fragility.

Latest of all to acknowledge the impulse of the new departure have been the potters of Kaga.

Peat is found in abundance, as well as gypsum, china-clay, potters' earth and salt.

Muskhogean tribes were potters, but Siouan tribes, as a rule, in all the Mississippi drainage were not.

Moreover, the mound-builders in the eastern half of this vast plain, being sedentary, were excellent potters.

The mound builders, Pueblo tribes, middle Americans and Peruvians, were potters of many schools; gorgeous colour fascinated the Amazonians, the Patagonians delighted in skins, and even the Fuegians saw beauty in the pretty snail shells of their desolate island shores.

Potters' clay, kaolin and felspar, which have largely facilitated the development of the flourishing porcelain industry, are found in various parts of the country, which is also fortunate in possessing sand suitable for use in the manufacture of the glass for which Bohemia has long been famous.

Coarsely grained galena is used for glazing pottery, and is then known as "potters' ore" or alquifoux.

As in antiquity so now the potters of the island are known throughout the Archipelago.

The quarrying of Purbeck stone and the raising of potters' clay are the chief industries.

He enjoyed great repute as a creator, and was supposed to use the potters wheel for the purpose.

Originally the Copenhagen potters imitated the Dresden china made at Meissen, but they later produced graceful original designs.

Amakusa produces a little coal and fine kaolin, which was largely used in former times by the potters of Hirado and Satsuma.

Dr Thomas Wedgwood of Burslem was one of the best of the early salt - glaze potters.

Many of Whieldon's apprentices afterwards became noted potters, and there can be little doubt that Wedgwood gained greatly at this period of his life by his association with Whieldon.

In later documents mention is made of eighteen gilds of work-people, whose names are nowhere given, but they probably included workers in wood, workers in metal, workers in stone, weavers, leather-workers, potters, ivory-workers, dyers, fisher-folk, butchers, hunters, cooks, barbers, flowersellers, sailors, basket-makers and painters.

The only other early records are seals with Hebrew inscriptions and potters' marks upon clay vessels found in Lachish and other towns.'

Imported vases from the Aegean, of the " Dipylon," " proto-Corinthian " and " Rhodian " fabrics, occur rarely, " and were imitated by the native potters; and early in the 6th century appears the specific influence of Ionia, and still more of Naucratis in the Egyptian delta.

The chief exports are coal, salt and pitch; but there is also a large traffic in potters' materials.

Beds of brick-clays and potters' clay are widely distributed throughout the state, the total value of pottery products in 1902 being $5,283,733 and in 1906 $7,158,234.

I had been working as a professional ceramist for ten years when I first heard about the potters' markets of mainland Europe.

Moreover, the train derailed at Potters Bar had no guard on board.

Spanish lustrewares combine two important innovations for which the potters of the Arab world were famous.

Not surprisingly, it has inspired painters, potters and jewelers to set up studios and shops here.

Today, Japanese artist potters are among the finest anywhere.

For Hammond all contemporary craft potters, however diverse in method and intention, contributed to the momentum of the discipline.

During college years worked with a number of potters in France and Ireland making raku and earthenware.

During the first twenty-five years of the Meiji era, the Owari potters sought to compensate the technical and artistic defects of their pieces by giving them magnificent dimensions; but at the Tokyo industrial exhibition (1891) they were able to contribute some specimens showing decorative, plastic and graving skill of no mean order.

Chinese potters of the Yung-lo era (1403-1414) enriched their country with a quantity of ware to which the name of total-ki (bodiless utensil) was given on account of its wonderfully attenuated pdle.

One and all skilful to a surpassing degree - weavers, embroiderers, potters, painters, engravers, carvers, sculptors and jewellers, - they were wearied by drudgery and overpowered by a never-absent, weird and grotesque theology.

At the start of the 21st century, there are potters; felt makers; picture framers; rag rug makers and many more.

Other cities where the ceramic industries keep their ground are Pesaro, Gubbio, Faenza (whose name long ago became the distinctive term for the finer kind of potters work in France, falence), Savona and Albissola, Turin, Mondovi, Cuneo, Castellamonte, Milan, Brescia, Sassuolo, Imola, Rimini, Perugia, Castelli, &c. In all these the older styles, by which these places became famous in the IthI8th centuries, have been revived.

The most important imports are minerals, including coal and metals (both in pig and wrought); silks, raw, spun and woven; stone, potters earths, earthenware and glass; corn, flour and farinaceous products; cotton, raw, spun and woven; and live stock.

The town and neighbourhood have been long noted for their lime and cement, and large quantities of potters', pipe, fire and other kinds of clay are sent to Staffordshire and to foreign countries.

As workers in metals and as potters they displayed infinite variety of design, while as cultivators and engineers they excelled their European conquerors.

In addition to persons of high rank, poets, legendary and others (Linus, Orpheus, Homer, Aeschylus and Sophocles), legislators and physicians (Lycurgus, Hippocrates), the patrons of various trades or handicrafts (artists, cooks, bakers, potters), the heads of philosophical schools (Plato, Democritus, Epicurus) received the honours of a cult.

But although the use of the potters wheel had long been understood, the objects produced were simple utensils tc contain offerings of rice, fruit and fish at the austere ceremonials of the Shinto faith, jars for storing seeds, and vessels for commor domestic use.

Setting aside, however, the strong improbability that a style of decoration so widely practised and so highly esteemed could have remained unknown during a century and a half to experts working for one of the most puissant chieftains in Japan, we have the evidence of trustworthy traditions and written records that enamelled faience was made by the potters at Tatsumonjithe principal factory of Satsuma-ware in early daysas far back as the year 1676.

It was introduced by two potters who had visited Kioto, and there observed the ornate methods so well illustrated in the wales of Awata and Kiyomizu.

The Kaga potters ultimately appreciated that defect.

Potters' clay is worked here.

Study of samian ware found in the town, however, suggests the local potters had scant success selling their wares.