A slight highlight along the curve of crystal brought back to him for a moment the blue ceramic vase that had been there in his memory.
The plans for escape had been intricate, yet sharp as the cracks in blue ceramic glaze.
Could the Clythra, an exceptional ceramic artist, work without a base and without a guide?
It turns round and, with the tips of its mandibles, collects singly, from the back, the brown pellets which it has only to work up with a little earth to make a ceramic paste of the highest quality.
From the very first I could not imagine the worker in ceramic paste designing its own pottery by drafting the first outlines.
Women the First Inventors in Ceramicand Textile Arts.
In ceramic as well as textile art the first inventors were women.
Holmes pointed out traces of Caribbean influences in the ceramic art of the Florida-Georgia region belonging to the period just before the Columbian discovery.
Kiowa, Sioux) and in ceramic art, notably in the remarkable polychrome pottery of the Pueblos tribes.
In this neighbourhood were found a great number of tombs containing vases of all periods, which furnish a marvellous record of the development of Attic ceramic art.
For the ceramic art admirable material was at hand in the district north-west of the Acropolis.
Ornament, Origin and Development of Form and, in Ceramic Art (Holmes) 4: 437.
Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art (Holmes) 4: 437.
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Origin and Development of Form and Ornament inCeramic Art 4: 437.
Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art, by William H.
Ceramic Art, Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in (Holmes) 4: 437.
Development, Origin and, of Form and Ornament inCeramic Art (Holmes) 4: 437.
Form and Ornament, Origin and Development of, in Ceramic Art (Holmes) 4: 437.
Were anything further needed to preserve for Italy the exclusive credit of one of the greatest contributions to ceramic art, it may be found in the styles of decoration of the Medicean porcelain.
That there is a brilliant future in store for the ceramicart of America may be inferred from the rapidity with which it has been pushed forward to the stage it has already reached.
It is unfortunate, considering the great importance of Persia in the history of ceramic art, that it should have been a debatable ground to travellers and ceramists.
It is more pertinent to our purpose to find that, amidst a civilization which bears a stamp of originality, ceramic art followed the course it had taken in Europe, Africa, and Asia.
The history of ceramic art carries us back to ages of which it has furnished us with the only records.
The ceramic remains found on the Phoenician coast are nearly all referable to her later conquerors.
Works of this class show that, while it is possible to define the limits of the field peculiar to ceramic art, its place in household decoration cannot be specified with equal precision.
We learn, therefore, from the relics brought together by General Cesnola, that the view taken of the devious course followed by ceramic art is correct.
Moustiers has only been known for a few years, but facts have been discovered which prove it to have held a highly important place in ceramic art.
Turning northward from Phoenicia to Asia Minor, the evidences ofceramic skill point to identically the same conclusion.
It is obvious, however, that in the works of the ceramic artist, it is neither always possible nor desirable to aim at bringing the four essentials together; and this fact will receive ample illustration from what follows.
It may be assumed that Seville, famous for its azulejos from the sixteenth century, and Valencia, which has an unwritten continuous ceramic history from the Roman epoch to the present day, would not send their inferior works to America.
It does not appear to have been so highly esteemed as the silicious glaze by means of which the Persians worked their greatest ceramic wonders, but it was not forgotten.
In Mexico, apparently, we have to look for the northern school of ceramic art.
So much then for the practical demands, in modern architecture, met by the products of ceramic art.
Ceramic products are ideal as a means to this end.
For these purposes there are no materials more apt, more adaptable, more enduring, richer in potentialities of beauty than the products of ceramic art.
Color and Ceramics" was delivered on the occasion of the dedication of the Ceramic Building of the University of Illinois, and afterwards published in The Architectural Forum.
There is no satisfactory evidence that the potter’s wheel was known to any American tribe; but Wilson, in his chapter on ceramic art (Prehistoric Man, ii.
Pottery of the ancient Pueblos;—Ancient pottery of the Mississippi Valley;—Origin and development of form and ornament inceramic art.
Holmes has a paper on the origin and development of form and of ornament in ceramic art in the Fourth Report, Bureau of Ethnology, p.
In this way both style and matter of the textile decoration are introduced into the ceramic art.
Definitions and Classification ofCeramic Products--Historic Summary of the Ceramic Art--Raw Materials of Bodies.
The further we advance into the 18th century, the more we find the tendency in Spanish ceramic art to imitate the pottery most in vogue in other countries.
After the Roman domination and Visigothic monarchy, ceramic art in Spain may be divided into the following groups:-- 1st.
During the Visigothic monarchy, after the downfall of the Roman empire, which lasted until the invasion of the Arabs in the 8th century, the same style of ceramic industry, copied from the Romans, continued in Spain.
This has enabled me to give an idea of the importance of this industry, and the names of the artists who worked there, which have been ignored until the present time by writers on ceramic art.
The productions of Ceramic Art have constituted from the earliest times a very important industry in Spain.
The eyes of the world-famous Italian ceramic expert, however, were not for the assembled denizens of Blakeville; they were only for that long and eagerly desired deposit of Etruscan soil.
The mythologic stage of the builders of these graves is shown by the fact that in their ceramic art there is no attempt to render the human face or figure with accuracy.
There is a portrait of Sloane in the Mediaeval Room, and a bust by Roubiliac in the Ceramic Gallery.
There is a bust of Mead by Roubiliac in the Ceramic Gallery.
Owing to the intelligent patronage of this company, and the impetus given to the ceramic trade by its enterprise, the style of the Tokyo etsuke was much improved and the field of their industry extended.
The Japanese, although they obtained from their neighbour almost everything of value she had to give them, did not know this wonderful ware, and their ignorance is in itself sufficient to prove their ceramic inferiority.
In its early days the ceramic industry of this province owed something to the assistance of Korean experts who settled there after the expedition of 1592.
Japan, on the contrary, owes her ceramic distinction in the main to her faience.
Specimens of the latter are still preserved in European collections, where they are classed as genuine examples of Japanese ceramic art, though beyond question their style of decoration was greatly influenced by Dutch interference.
To such a depth of debasement had the ceramic art fallen in Owari, that before the happy renaissance of the past ten years, Nagoya discredited itself by employing porcelain as a base for cloisonne enamelling.
It is therefore an error to assert that Kioto has no longer a title to be called a great ceramic centre.
Many examples of the above varieties deserve the enthusiastic admiration they have received, yet they unquestionably belong to a lower rank of ceramic achievements than the choice productions of Chinese kilns.
The vases and cups of this fabric, from the delicacy of their forms, the grace of their designs, and the richness of their colour, are among the most notable survivals of Minoan ceramic art.
Professor Petrie some years ago discovered some unquestionable specimens of this fine ware, which had certainly been imported from Crete, as the fabric is one quite unknown to native Egyptian ceramic art.
Towards the close of this epoch the ceramic art of Knossos shows features which are directly attributable to Egyptian influence.
The ceramic artist must thus have felt that with his limited scale of colours he could not produce the same natural effects as the wall-painter with his.
Metallurgical and ceramic engineers test and evaluate the strength, durability, and other characteristics of materials to be used in the fabrication of equipment, and they produce new materials for specific jobs.
The ceramic engineer tackles similar problems, working with ceramicproducts rather than metals.
That is one of the nice points of the 'ceramic art,' and much skill and fine imagination are required to produce some of the wonderful combinations of color seen upon Italian majolica.
You said the painting was one of the 'nice points of the ceramic art,' uncle.
He had ordered the project director to run a computer simulation examining the performance of two new ceramic spoilers, modified canard foreplanes, and the preliminary results indicated the drag would be effectively damped.
Also, the new ceramic composite they've come up with for the fuel injection struts was heated to thirty-five hundred degrees Fahrenheit and repeatedly stress-tested.
The new material being used for the leading edges and scramjet struts, a proprietary titanium alloy coated with a ceramic skin, had turned out to be much lighter than aluminum and eight times as strong.
During the year work was begun upon a review of the ceramicart of Mexico.
You will start making ceramic parts for automobile spark plugs and certain parts for radios and gas ranges.
The result of the new flood was that in the following year, the sale of Masur ceramic table service dropped to less than a tenth.
They are replacing our high-quality ceramic ware with inferior terrestrial junk," Koltan went on bitterly.
And you will have to design a new ceramic stove for me to use the pots on.
After he had beaten his wife thoroughly for her foolishness, Zotul stamped off in a rage and designed a new ceramic stove, one that would accommodate the terrestrial pots very well.
It would do no good, Zotul realized, to bring up the fact that their production of ceramic cooking pots had dropped off to about two per cent of its former volume.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ceramic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
