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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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The Asian gallery is equally impressive, with the largest porcelain pieces displayed in a Z-shaped vitrine—an original museum signature—and Japanese prints.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Most of the porcelain was made for the European market, underscoring a subtext of cross-fertilization, already stated by Islamic ceramics imitating Chinese blue and white.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Portugal's Vista Alegre, the oldest and largest porcelain maker in the Iberian country, decided to install energy storage systems in 2022, seizing the opportunity of abundant funds from the EU's Recovery and Resilience Plan.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

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

Mami responds and brings the coffee to Chicho in one of her tiny porcelain cups.

From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar

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

By the late fifteenth century, Ottoman ships were trading with India, and goods such as Chinese silks and porcelains furnished the homes of the wealthy in Istanbul.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

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

“I’m not going to lie to you, it will never seem normal,” Bush says as she walks Obama past the porcelains and paintings in the Center Hall.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2022

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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