Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Pottery or porcelain having a metallic sheen produced when metallic oxides are added to the glaze.
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- noun A type of
pottery having aniridescent metallic glaze
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- noun pottery with a metallic sheen produced by adding metallic oxides to the glaze
Etymologies
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Examples
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But the ceramics are not far behind, a feast of shimmering lusterware, deep turquoise stonepaste, and a plethora of blue-and-white works that include the 14th-century prayer niche—or mihrab—that visitors to the old galleries will remember.
The Many Paths Toward an Islamic Aesthetic Lee Lawrence 2011
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The 16th-century lusterware, with considerably more assertive pattern and color contrasts, includes a large plate with a bull splayed across it that suggests yet another of Picasso's varied visual sources.
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And in almost all of the lusterware there's the constant reminder of the debt owed to the 12th - and 13th-century Persian ceramic tradition.
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“That is genuine lusterware, straight from St. Louis.”
A GIFT OF LOVE Judith McNaught 1995
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“That is genuine lusterware, straight from St. Louis.”
A GIFT OF LOVE Judith McNaught 1995
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Many beautiful glazes can be obtained in reduction firing, so it is widely used for decorative stoneware, and for lusterware.
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Hawkins wondered about the number two kiln — a reduction fire on a load of lusterware mugs.
Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973
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Anavian booth, a small lusterware fragment from the 12th or 13th century features a drawn noblewoman whose face shows Mongolian influences.
NYT > Home Page By MARTHA SCHWENDENER 2012
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Anavian booth, a small lusterware fragment from the 12th or 13th century features a drawn noblewoman whose face shows Mongolian influences.
NYT > Home Page By MARTHA SCHWENDENER 2012
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The pink and white lusterware pitchers were a gift from a man whose son she helped get into a better school.
NYT > Home Page By CONSTANCE ROSENBLUM 2011
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