| 单词 | porcelain |
| 例句 | There was no refusing, however inconvenient it might have seemed to fight a war with Meissen porcelain under one arm. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He carried a tray of porcelain shot glasses and a small bottle of soju, clear liquor made from potatoes. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The green metal cage, the porcelain table top, the family that spoke like guitars. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z When she bathed the little Fisher girl, it was in a porcelain tub with silvery taps running infinite quantities of hot, clear water. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z But with her cheek pressed against the cool white porcelain she could swim through imaginary waters and sometimes fall asleep. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Her cook prepared for Woody a special meal of teriyaki fish, its sauce enriched by the gift of sugar, and Toyo served it on one of her few remaining treasures, a fine set of porcelain. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I picked up a porcelain plate, but then I noticed the others grabbing metal ones from a separate cabinet. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The dresser in my room was covered with little porcelain white women holding parasols, china dogs, fat-bellied cupids and blown-glass animals of every persuasion. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Cold on the porcelain, her hair was down, loose around her shoulders, and matted with dried blood. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The bailies had a diameter of ten inches and a concave porcelain lid on the top that could contain water. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even with my head inside porcelain, I heard her and Dad laughing. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He had the square, handsome face of his father, the porcelain complexion of his mother, and the dense overhang of eyebrows that ran in the Darwin family over generations. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The porcelain in the kitchen sink was discolored but the brass fixtures were shining brightly. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The animals eat from porcelain plates and stalk along the table. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Then, the ultimate prize: a porcelain cherub holding a Confederate flag with “Heritage Not, Hate” painted beneath. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z A porcelain vase of pink and purple flowers stood in the center of the table, just like the painting. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z They remind me of the porcelain dolls my sisters and I used to play with as children. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Ndoros were still worn by spirit mediums, but they were made of porcelain. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Lee came back with his stone bottle and three little porcelain cups so thin and delicate that the light shone through them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z An estimated sixteen million visitors come to see the new inventions, including a solar oven, American porcelain teeth, Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone, Thomas Edison’s phonograph and his megaphone, modified to help the hard of hearing. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Her hands were hot and dry and she had to grip the porcelain all the tighter. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Thinking about it made Ophie’s hands shake, and it was the chiming of the unstable porcelain that finally got Penelope’s attention. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z But he remembered the hours leading up to it—his grandmother coming out into the backyard to find him shooting arrows at her porcelain collection. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z More or less independent later experiments in France and England led to Sevres, Wedgwood, and Spode porcelains. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The other dangles a porcelain teacup full of Belle-rose tea, an anesthetic drink steeped from the roses that grow on our island. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Powerful arms encircled me, dragging me from the dark lagoon and onto the cold porcelain floor. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I rested my hands on the rim of the sink, feeling the cool, smooth porcelain, and stared at myself in the mirror. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z The nurse shakes her head at me, removing another pair of leeches from the porcelain jar. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “Like a snow leopard. Except I’m not porcelain.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I still can’t go in Henry’s bathroom. Blood smeared on the porcelain. Henry’s straight razor swinging from a peg. We were bruised and scratched to pieces.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Dad's gritty stubble and my almost invisible fur snowed together onto the white porcelain sink. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z When the chai was ready, I poured it into a porcelain cup etched with hummingbirds. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z She opens the porcelain jar, flashing its slimy contents. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z It was the first porcelain tub she’d seen outside of the movies. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z White porcelain tiles beneath my palms and knees. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z How the tourists must delight in the gleam of metal and porcelain! Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z But I couldn’t stop myself from sitting on its cool, porcelain edge. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Directly ahead lay a gas station, a great chunk of porcelain snow shining there, and two silver beetles pulling in to fill up. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z We saved our weekly allowances in the fall, dropped the money in a little porcelain horse Baba had brought one time from Herat. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z A pitcher of steaming water sits beside the porcelain basin on my new vanity. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Suddenly Uncle took a porcelain cup from his sleeve. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Her body was so slim and fragile one got the feeling that if she fell over she would smash into a thousand pieces, like a porcelain figure. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z This room had air-conditioning and a blue tiled bathroom with a porcelain sink and chrome handles like I'd seen on television. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Black curls dangled from bits of broken porcelain. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I wake to sounds of steaming water splattering into a porcelain bowl. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I was standing there with the night-light casting its small brightness when I looked down and saw the claw-footed tub wearing the red socks May had put on its porcelain feet. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes he tried to calculate the number of porcelain bricks in the walls of the cell. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He’d counted that morning, and memorized where they were—tall square cases made of dark wood, with glass sides and fronts and velvet-covered shelves, made for displaying valuable objects of porcelain or ivory or gold. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw also what had made the crash: a costly porcelain vase which had been standing on the window-sill lay on the floor broken into about thirty pieces. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The lamps were not porcelain or chalkware; they had been made from the skulls of the mad, acquired from Dunning Asylum. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Looking at the porcelain, Frank felt a twinge of guilt for having destroyed so many pieces the day of the funeral. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Like at school when Leen Ellison answered questions in science class, or like when Grandma yelled at them for breaking one of her porcelain dolls. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The merchant balanced the porcelain cup on his knee. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z On top of that, there are porcelain dolls on doilies on nearly every surface of the house. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I was sitting on the toilet with my new bedroom slippers on when I heard splash-clunk as the key fell out of my butt and hit the porcelain bowl. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The Tangerine County Sports Commission has gathered up the shards of my porcelain plate, Krazy- Glued them together, and handed it back to me. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We ate them in silence, our spoons clicking loudly against Grandma’s porcelain plates. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Occasionally there was a ping as somebody dipped his nib too violently into his tiny white porcelain ink-well. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Every few days she gives Gogol a bath in the porcelain sink in the kitchen. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Everything had been strewn on the floor—the porcelain donkey, our framed law degrees, the seashells Manolo and I had found on Morro Beach. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Breedlove’s skin glowed like taffeta in the reflection of white porcelain, white woodwork, polished cabinets, and brilliant copperware. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Guttingen came into the room early in the morning to shut the windows and started a fire in the tall porcelain stove. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Her face towel was damp and she’d left a fresh gob of toothpaste on the sink’s porcelain. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The only doors that defeated him were those with porcelain handles, for he found it impossible to get a purchase on the shiny surface with his long monkeylike paws. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z We dreamed the wealthy family would take us in, ladle thick soup into porcelain bowls, and let us warm our frozen toes by the fire. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Whereupon suddenly, gnashing his teeth so hard little pieces of porcelain literally spewed from his mouth, the sheriff jumped up and grabbed an armload of her saints and threw them into the holocaust. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The furniture was imported from abroad, along with all the other comforts—silverware, silk-covered chairs, white christening gowns, porcelain washing bowls. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z With the delicate tinkling of silver on porcelain, she rests her spoon on the saucer and finally looks at Henry. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z His face was narrow and sharp, with the perfect beauty of porcelain. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There’s all these other things too, like fur coats and porcelain cats and seashells and pewter statues of cowboys. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z After she showed me what being a good wife had taught her—her words, not mine—I fell asleep under the watchful eyes of a dozen or so porcelain dolls. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z In return for exporting bird of paradise plumes and spices, New Guineans received Southeast Asian goods, including even such luxury items as Dong Son bronze drums and Chinese porcelain. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Frank felt as if he were being shot with arrows, his heart splitting into porcelain shards. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z But even more dazzling to Joseph were the dozens of small blue-and-white Chinese vases and porcelain figures, each one sitting on its own little gold shelf, that covered the wall above the fireplace. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He always remembered this dolphin, a magnificent ivory-white animal shining on the dock like porcelain. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z At least a dozen daddy longlegs were arranged along the bottom of the cool porcelain tub, quiet, quivering when the light blared on and her shadow fell. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A year or so earlier these same girls had been porcelain figurines, gingerly dipping their toes into the disinfectant basin at the public pool. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He made me feel as fragile as porcelain. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z The preceding paragraph gave examples of blueprint copying, whereas the transfer of Chinese porcelain technology to Europe provides an instance of long-drawn-out idea diffusion. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The timepiece’s cool weight comforted me, and when the passing streetlamps permitted, I watched the second hand continue its steady revolution around the porcelain dial. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z In the parlor, Frank sat on a velvet sofa, surrounded by vintage family photos, porcelain vases that had been too large for his wagon, and red Chinese calligraphy banners. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z One with laughter like tin and one with eyes of a cat and one with hands like porcelain. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z China had an astronomical tradition millennia old; it invented paper and printing, rockets, clocks, silk, porcelain, and ocean-going navies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Jn her crazy lady clothes of reds and greens, she greeted the animals and the moving branches as she carried her porcelain cup to the river. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked around the room and brought a porcelain pin tray to his desk. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Her shelves were loaded with porcelain figurines we weren’t allowed to touch. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Servants return with the porcelain jug of leeches. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But his skin is the same warm brown as mine, and Sophia is as pale white as the porcelain die she clasps in her hand. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I find the door, turn the knob, fingers on cool porcelain, open. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z It tingles as it flows through me, filling me like steeped honeybush tea poured into black porcelain. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I grip the smooth porcelain, looking at myself in the mirror, standing there in my bra and underwear. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z I had brought a small porcelain tea set for her children, and when they began to quarrel over the teapot, I gathered up the pieces. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She intended to lift off the porcelain lid and fiddle with the arrangement of bulb and plug inside. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z On the night table a ballerina held aloft a lamp shade, and a soft pink light bathed her porcelain tutu, accentuating the curves of her strong legs. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The dark red hair, the striking features, the porcelain white skin. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Now my uncle picked up a porcelain vase. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Fine linen cloth covered the table, which displayed eight porcelain dishes with perfectly placed silverware and folded napkins on either side. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z A miniature teardrop traveled down her white porcelain face, like dew on the tip of early morning grass. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z He was in a high-ceilinged windowless cell with walls of glittering white porcelain. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I sat down across from her, my back against the cold sloping porcelain. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z He’d loaded some of his grandmother’s, porcelain in a wagon and toted it into the yard, where he set up targets on old fenceposts at the edge of the property. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She barely has on any makeup, yet her skin still looks like porcelain. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z They were all either plastic or porcelain or glass, easily broken. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z We could prepare the platters and wash the porcelain plates and glasses, but we could not eat from them. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z A heap of tiny pale green clams no larger than quarters soak in the deep porcelain sink. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Murenga’s wife cleared away some porcelain statues of white girls in long frilly skirts. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There are a couple shelves where I keep porcelain animals, and Micro Machines cars, and a La-Z-Boy chair we got when the people in the apartment next door left it outside. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z He picks up Celia’s only doll from a nearby chair and drops it to the floor, the porcelain head cracking open. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I stared at the toilet: a perfect porcelain bowl, set in the floor with rose-colored tiles arranged all around in an abstract mosaic. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Lourdes fished Pilar’s book out of the tub with barbecue tongs and placed it on the porcelain platter she reserved for her roasted pork legs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The porcelain figurines were in a straight line on the window-ledge, all facing the same way. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z After I got my sisters in, out, dried, and lotioned, I took my bath, setting my watch on the porcelain edge to keep an eye on my own twelve minutes in the tub. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hair was the pale blond of a porcelain doll. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z She sat back, the cold porcelain of the tub seeping through her borrowed T-shirt, and took in her drawing. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She had brought along her pottery, her silver, heirlooms like the kimonos Granny had brought from Japan, tea sets, lacquered tables, and one fine old set of china, blue and white porcelain, almost translucent. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I held a porcelain castle no bigger than my two fists, with six wee towers, each ending in a miniature candle holder. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Plush tabletops display porcelain boxes studded with gold and diamonds and precious gems. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z They brought blue and white porcelain bowls filled with water and carp—the bowls painted with carp, fins like orange fire. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Every surface was polished and clean, and a mahogany cabinet against the wall contained dainty porcelain figures. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The doll had dark ringlets, milky porcelain skin, and pink lips parted over painted white teeth. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z He established a network of mysterious contacts that enabled him to buy antiques, particularly baroque French porcelain, for which he had a weakness. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Located near the Taedong River, its grounds lie at the entrance to Valley 2, not far from the hydroelectric dam and factories that make glassware and porcelain. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I pulled away from him, accidentally knocking the porcelain bowl from his desk. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Cecilia gripped the cool porcelain in both hands as she stood on one foot, and with the other hooked the French windows open wide. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Liam’s tanned face had gone porcelain pale, his mouth hanging open in an almost comical way. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He kept ice in a porcelain bowl on his desk. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z When he returned he would bring back gifts: slippery, shiny silks, or thick woolen tweeds, or toy dolls made of pale, cold porcelain. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, remembering the dream, I thought about a porcelain lady with no head or arms that I saw one time in a shop in Atlanta. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He spent it on a new suit, an unforgettable drinking spree with all is friends, and a porcelain doll for Clara. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Auri scampered down into the courtyard and in a few minutes returned with a delicate porcelain teacup for me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She had put two straight-backed chairs at a kitchen table with a white porcelain top. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z After we had taken off our shoes, he showed me to the bathroom, all porcelain and dark wood, with running water and a toilet operated by a pull chain. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He pointed to the wall of blue-and- white porcelain behind Joseph. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z There was a bell pull with a porcelain knob, attached to about six feet of wire when I stopped pulling and knocked. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z No porcelain rocking horse, the one Mom always put at the tip-top of the tree so no one could break it. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Her red lips are purple and dry, her cheeks are sunken, there are deep shadows under her eyes, her porcelain white skin is brown and wrinkled from the sun. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He stuck my head in further, so my nose scraped the stained porcelain. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Her complexion is as smooth and delicate as a piece of the fine porcelain from the formal dining salon at home. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Ripples disrupt the calm surface as cracks tremble across the glaze, and then it collapses in shards of flowered porcelain. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Wherever there were a few vacant square inches, something Christmassy appeared: a matchbox creche, a porcelain Santa, a partridge in a pear tree. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z So whenever I thought about the record, which was often, I imagined a fine porcelain plate. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He glided a hand laxly into her loose hair, twisting those soft yellow strands around his thin fingers which felt fragile and likely to snap, as if made of hollow, unhinged porcelain. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee set a stone bottle and three little translucent porcelain cups on the table.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z On the shelf of the rolltop desk, like a mantel under the grandparents’ photos, there were bowls of plastic tangerines and oranges, crepe-paper flowers, plastic vases, porcelain vases filled with sand and incense sticks. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They drank from porcelain teacups, longed for moist earth to eat. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z When bits of shell slip in, the sound is like gravel mixed with porcelain. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Nearly every other table in the room had a vase of fresh flowers or a porcelain figurine on it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Maybe Grandmother was trying to scare him as some sort of revenge for breaking her porcelain. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I spotted porcelain figurines that looked just like the ones Robbie had kept on her shelves downstairs from us on Euclid Avenue. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Green eyes and porcelain skin, long straight silvery hair, very lovely, but too solemn by half. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The skin on her face was the color of white porcelain. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The melody of preparation hides my footsteps: clinking glass, the jingle of silver cutlery, the clack of porcelain dishes, the grunts and whispers of the servants. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I once heard her whisper to Izzy that I had left bread crumbs in her porcelain sink. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z We picked our way through, though with little stealth remaining, for each step cracked and snapped as porcelain shattered beneath our heels. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I sat on a porcelain stool, leaning my forehead against the cool windowpane. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard laughter, the slosh of wine being poured from a bottle, the tinkle of butter knives tapping porcelain. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The roses burst open in full bloom, their petals as big as porcelain plates. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Among her women friends, Ma is admired for her height, slender build, and porcelain white skin. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The simplest possible fare, served on the finest porcelain, and set on an elaborate charger of chased silver. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He has a wife who suffers his absences without complaint, and who arranges porcelain kittens by color, lightest to darkest, on two different shelves in their drawing room in Stuttgart. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The apartment was cluttered with little porcelain figures, decorative plates, and ashtrays from various nightclubs. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z When you bent to wash your face you saw tiny cracks in the porcelain, as in a Ming vase. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She picked up a porcelain vase and threw it at him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I press my hands into the porcelain of the sink. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The heavy porcelain rim caught him in the side of the head, sending his yanked-down cap askew. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The cool porcelain was under the tip of his forefinger, and before the arguments could start around again, he made himself press it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I couldn’t see much beyond the partition, only a sliver of peach-pink wall and white porcelain. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Servants wheel in carts of porcelain jars with perforated lids. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Beneath the taps, dripping had worn the porcelain thin in green stripes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Her skin was as soft as it looked, white and smooth as freckled porcelain. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z A short silence falls over our table, broken only by the clang of forks against porcelain, the obnoxious slurping sounds Connor makes as he eats his chow mein. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z My own voice galls even me; it oppresses me like a silver fork scraped across porcelain. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z No. Did I take the wand of my vacuum cleaner and smash someone’s Chinese porcelain statues or Hummel figurines? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Steeling my nerves, I retrieved the sponge from the porcelain basin at my side. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z A rough mantelpiece teemed with small bright objets d’art made of plaster, porcelain, clay, and milk glass. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z A porcelain vase etched in gold was placed on the bedside table and filled with a spray of fragrant evergreen. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She put the ochazuke in her own special bowl with the gold cracks and took it into the bedroom with a porcelain spoon. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The parley room was a comfortable place with a big fire, sideboards laden with silver and porcelain, and a heavy table darkly polished by the years, at which twelve chairs were drawn up. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Low voices, the clatter of porcelain and metal. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She quickly reached over and picked a cigarette out of the porcelain box, but didn’t prepare to light it. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Grandmother’s large porcelain vases were strung with cobwebs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Wooden counters, wooden cupboards, wooden chairs, wooden floor; only the refrigerator, sink and stove were porcelain. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandma tipped her glass to her porcelain teeth. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z His warm ivory skin is free from a single imperfection, like a porcelain doll behind a glass case. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z My butt was sore against the porcelain, so I tried to rearrange myself. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z But at the sight of the white porcelain bowl her body—which had been waiting for nearly two and a half hours—could resist no longer. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I pictured her sitting in the kitchen, the wallpaper border near the ceiling with its strips of stamped ivy, the floral porcelain handles on the cabinets. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She poured a small amount into one of the delicate porcelain cups and sipped it cautiously. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z And Con could not remember if he had ever seen a sky so blue: robin’s egg blue, smooth as glossy porcelain, untouched by clouds. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Up close she still looks remarkably like Catherine—delicate features, pale as porcelain, with a smattering of freckles across the bridge of her nose. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He reached into a shopping bag and, unnervingly, pulled out a small resin replica of his head, complete with swooping hair and twinkling earrings: a model for a porcelain RuPaul statuette. For RuPaul, A Second Act with ‘Drag Race’ 2014-02-21T22:38:50Z All had been seized, along with a large porcelain collection and a sugar refinery, after the Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938. Maria V. Altmann, Pursuer of Family Klimts, Dies at 94 2011-02-09T05:24:09Z When the first local porcelain factory was opened in 1616, it was initially manned by Korean craftsmen. 2010-01-08T19:00:00Z His Diamond Ring pendants, embellished with crystals, hang above a porcelain Hermès tureen and a painted vase. Hermès holiday windows by lighting designer Christopher Boots 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Even his bathroom seems to be a showcase of sorts with a collection of Dehua porcelain surrounding his bathtub. T Magazine: The Restoration of a French Country Estate, 20 Years in the Making 2013-09-13T19:05:15Z The art shows Tintin and his dog Snowy peeking out from a porcelain jar while a dragon hovers dangerously close. Comic Art’s Million-Dollar Club 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z In addition to the Rothkos and Diebenkorns, treasures include jewelry by great designers of the 20th century including Cartier and Verdura, antique French, English and American furniture, and examples of rare porcelains. Sotheby's to Auction Items From Paul and Bunny Mellon Estate 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z “The King’s Speech” is a pudding of a movie, easy in, easy out, and its lack of chew is ideal for those porcelain veneers twinkling in the dark at the Kodak. Film: Oscars? Red Carpet (Parallel Universe) 2011-03-02T12:42:49Z The count, though, is consigned to a tiny room on the top floor, crammed with a few pieces of his fine furniture and a set of porcelain plates. ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’ is a charming reminder of what it means to be classy 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z “It’s the first physical evidence of what we call hard-paste porcelain being produced in America,” said Robert Hunter, an archaeologist and the editor of the journal Ceramics in America. American ‘Holy Grail’ Punch Bowl to Go on Display 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z He mixes it with white paint to create thick strata of crazed, beautiful craquelure in different scales like those cultivated in Chinese porcelains, or skins punctured with big holes, as in the small “Bianco.” Alberto Burri, a Man of Steel, and Burlap 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z The demon brings with him some creepy minions, a few of whom — homicidal gingerbread men and hungry predators with the faces of porcelain dolls — provide the movie’s only real moments of freakiness and wit. Review: In ‘Krampus,’ the Holiday Involves a Demonic Santa 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Their plan would have swapped Carnegie for a 44-story office tower clad in red porcelain enamel, set into a sunken plaza, with a bridged entrance. Carnegie Hall and the Jewels of Midtown: Stroll the History 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Unless you’re a Midwesterner, the word “Kohler” probably turns your attention to certain porcelain fixtures in particular rooms in your home. As lifestyle brands enter the hospitality business, hotel rooms double as showrooms 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z The work, five panels of sharpened porcelain teeth, honored the memory of Ota Benga, a Congolese pygmy with pointed teeth who was put on display at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the Bronx Zoo. Distinct Prisms in an Ever-Shifting Kaleidoscope 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z He hasn’t determined the prices for any of the porcelain jewelry yet. This Porcelain Is Tougher Than It Looks 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z She said there is virtually no chance the scratches are deep enough to expose the white porcelain underneath; the glaze is just too thick and hard. How to remove dirt from textured vinyl flooring 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z It’s a nickname in Italian for the cowry shell, whose shiny, white surface porcelain resembles. The European Obsession with Porcelain 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z The exhibition also includes small porcelain sculptures of flowers. Mary Carlson: ‘paradise’ 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z The exhibit consisted of 11 porcelain sculptures telling the story of Vietnamese American women through symbols taken from the manicure parlors where they had worked. Showcasing the Diversity of the South 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Sometimes she zooms in on a detail with exhilarating precision: a single escaped hair lying across Gioconda's cheek "like a fine fracture in porcelain". The Lost Man Booker prize 2010-04-01T07:00:00Z The one late sculpture on view, a mobile suspended in the center of the room, is similarly involved: a miniature galaxy of porcelain and translucent mesh. Art Review: Lee Bontecou , From MoMA?s Permanent Collection 2010-08-12T21:12:00Z The manual for your model warns against using commercial oven cleaners or metal scouring pads for fear of damaging the porcelain surfaces on the oven interior. How can I get the brown crud off my oven’s glass door? 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z The front of the post office sports larger-than-life cutouts of Hummel figurines mailing porcelain letters straight, one imagines, to a visitor’s heart. Thanksgiving in a Town Built on Lederhosen and Limitless Meals 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z It includes items like white birch trays that feature designs taken from the textiles, as well as small porcelain cups; peanut-shaped drinking glasses; and coffee cups shaped like funny birds. | At Home with Minä Perhonen 2012-11-08T17:02:24Z For one thing, some of it is very funny, as in a tableau positioning two porcelain figurines of colonial-era gentry before a regal, glowering jet-black face looming above them, their graceful postures bespeaking total incomprehension. Inspired by Harriet Tubman, an Artist Takes Glass to Extremes 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Then commences the great give-and-take between paintings and porcelains, bronzes and silver. Review: Wadsworth Atheneum, a Masterpiece of Renovation 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z But Ergon tiles are porcelain, a mixture of quartz sand, feldspar and clay fired at a very high temperature. The solution for stubborn dirt on porcelain tile? These products, and elbow grease. 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z The shapes, which have precedents in ancient Roman mosaic glass and Chinese porcelain vases, “demonstrate the way modern decorative and functional arts have direct roots in their historical counterparts.” Form, Function and Beauty Span Eons in Met Acquisitions 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Her words hang in the air, deliciously transgressive in the genteel atmosphere of clinking porcelain. Julie Delpy: ‘Women were bred to be directors’ 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Ai, famous for his "Bird's Nest" Olympic Stadium in Beijing and a recent installation at London's Tate Modern gallery comprising millions of replica porcelain sunflower seeds, was 13th in the ranking last year. China's Ai Weiwei tops annual ArtReview power list 2011-10-13T00:12:56Z “After a big bowl of granola, I head to the porcelain library for my daily bransit.” Style Invitational Week 1307: One for one, for all — a neologism contest 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Many mass-produced porcelain mosaics are considerably less expensive. Tiny tiles are back in a big way 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z “The age creates a surface that is not unlike porcelain,” he said, describing the effect of a polyurethane-specific varnish called Guflac. Living With Freaky Furniture 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Qing porcelain with square seal-style marks and imperial jades, both of which suit current tastes, are sure to go on rising in the New York Asian Week this month and later in Hong Kong. Special Report: The New Art Season: Art Anchored in History Will Soar This Season 2011-09-07T10:30:06Z The idea of Hogg plucking ripe seeds of porcelain berry somewhere in Hokkaido during a long day of collecting somehow eases the tedium of ripping the stems from the tangle of the fruit bush. How America’s frenzy for Japanese plants brought beauties — and a mega-weed 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z Rather than emulate the originals exactly, however, the artist constructs her likenesses with slices of porcelain. Review | In the galleries: Washington Sculptors Group shows a playful nature 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z But the fragility of these seemingly buoyant sculptures was made clear on Thursday when visitors at an art fair in Miami saw a bright blue porcelain dog worth $42,000 fall and shatter into pieces. Art Fair Visitor Breaks a Jeff Koons Balloon Dog Sculpture 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z Other family and friends were getting paprika, porcelain and Tokaji wine. Don’t make these travel mistakes: 7 writers share stories about blunders on the road 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z It’s as if the ballerina is dancing on delicate porcelain, or on fairy wings; a dance of ethereal beauty and weightless joy. Why Tchaikovsky’s ‘The Nutcracker’ is the sound of the holidays for so many of us 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z The problem was that the white clay required for this porcelain existed only at kiln sites in China. Review: ‘Made in the Americas’ Explores Globalism From Way, Way Back 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z His bar snacks, three porcelain bowls lined up on a slate for $17, are compact flavor bombs that detonate quickly and leave a vivid afterimage. Restaurant Review: Gato From Bobby Flay 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z Last month it opened an online boutique with offerings including a gold-and-ivory porcelain Marie Antoinette soup tureen and “Let Them Eat Cake” coconut candles. ?This Space for Rent?: In Europe, Arts Now Must Woo Commerce 2011-01-23T23:21:17Z Locals shun the girls at St. Margaret, named for the patron saint of pregnant women and housed in a mansion built by a bishop who favored peacocks and fine porcelain. Review | In ‘The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls,’ a tidal wave strikes, and a small town must pick up the pieces 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z Ms. Lee said her grandmother also used to serve Lunar New Year dinner on festive red and gold lacquered porcelain, with forks and knives instead of chopsticks — a typical Peranakan table setting. In Singapore, Lunar New Year Is a Multicultural Feast 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z Trompe l’oeil porcelain, made in 18th-century Europe, often took the form of fruit and vegetables, including melons and peas in a pod. Fake Food Is Trendy Again 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z Bar Keepers Friend is an extremely popular cookware cleaner that you can use on most pans — stainless steel, porcelain, enamel, copper, and more. Don't toss that burnt pan! Here's how to clean it 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z There's a wonderful natural "sea sculpture" of broken Chinese porcelain here, lost at sea and "glued" back together thanks to coral growing on the seabed, then caught in a trawler's net. Aquatopia: art on the ocean wave 2013-07-22T17:25:00Z It will be Ai's first exhibition in a public British gallery since he filled Tate Modern's Turbine Hall with thousands of porcelain sunflower seeds in 2010. Ai Weiwei exhibits in former chapel 2014-04-17T10:35:17Z It’s echoed by another landscape in miniature, an inset on a Viennese porcelain coffeepot with a striking faux-bois background. Art Review: Art Imitates Movies in a Series of Scenes 2010-12-23T22:22:15Z “I have now found another country whose porcelain industry included an image of Cuba,” he says with quiet triumph. Can one man’s Cuban road trip fix 56 years of cultural disconnect? 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Good Enough to Eat In the last decade or so, Dutch designers became famous for their bold reimaginings and remixings of traditional porcelain decoration. T Magazine: Good Enough to Eat 2012-10-05T13:00:33Z I collect chile condiments the way my grandmother collected miniature porcelain baskets of flowers, all lined up in perpetual bloom on every flat surface of her living room. You’ll Want to Put This Chile-Garlic Oil on Everything 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z A clever take on the classic toile-de-jouy pattern, it floats tiny porcelain sculptural tableaus on a turquoise wall and incorporates elves and Barbies in lieu of frolicking aristocrats. Art Review: Pavilion of Art and Design at Park Avenue Armory - Review 2011-11-10T23:44:24Z Down below, a line of porcelain doll heads grinned over the moodily lighted lobby as lithe young things churned past the reception desk, designer gym bags in tow. The Man Who Made Working Out Cool 2011-04-27T23:27:25Z On the day I visited the studio in July, a chorus line of rejected porcelain owls was stashed out of reach on a high shelf. T Magazine: The Secret Gardener 2012-10-05T14:00:44Z The conversation is hushed, the coffee is served in delicate porcelain cups — strong, dark, intense. | Tokyo Coffee 2011-12-16T18:09:03Z The golden anniversary: Oscar de la Renta’s porcelain carnation brooch says to her that you still remember your very first date — and that you will never bring her carnations from the corner deli ever again. | A Valentine's Day Cheat Sheet 2011-02-09T22:00:36Z Having previously seen that assemblage — of metal, porcelain, glass and crystal bells and a single violin bow — on a shelf in the next gallery, I anticipated a range of textures. Critics Discuss ?Christian Marclay: Festival? 2010-07-23T22:31:00Z An “Exhibition of Relics Repair” allows visitors to watch archeologists piece together some of the 30,000 porcelain shards recovered from the grounds. China Remembers a Vast Crime 2010-10-21T12:26:00Z Inspired by the blue glazes used on 18th century Sèvres porcelain, initially reserved for the aristocracy, chemist Louis Jacques Thénard developed a synthetic, vivid cobalt blue pigment making it affordable for the masses. How new shades of blue made 'A Revolution of the Palette' at Norton Simon 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z A recent alumna is Jessica Harrison, a contemporary British artist based in Scotland, known for her sly manipulations of mass-produced porcelain figurines. Where Artists Go to Play With Clay 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Domenge's sculptures, in materials ranging from wood to porcelain, are often spherical or otherwise organic in shape, with titles borrowed from the world around her. Sculptor's spheres of interest in Millennium Park 2011-03-30T01:11:00Z It is just as jarring to hear her as it is to see her porcelain face. Game On: 'Metroid: Other M' is a must-own 2010-08-31T22:34:00Z As with the porcelain leaves, the images in the woven installation occupy a middle ground between detailed specificity and generalized memory. Pacific Standard Time exhibition at the Fowler traces the power of sacred plants in Brazil 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z In Italy, he planned to undertake an ambitious project: creating an updated version of Napoleon’s porcelain dinner set that would draw on his past as a graffiti artist. For Artists in Need, a New Coalition Brings $11.6 Million in Speedy Relief 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Police soon arrested several suspects, but the items - a large jade bowl with a Chinese poem written inside that dates back to 1769, and a Dehua porcelain sculpture - were not immediately recovered. British police recover stolen Chinese artifacts 2012-04-14T21:04:10Z And it has mummies, ancient Chinese porcelain, centuries-old Greek statuary and shining body armor from Germany and Italy. A Rare Gem in a City That Has Struggled 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z The pieces in oak, ebony and rosewood, sumptuously adorned with gilt, lacquer work or inlays of porcelain, are presented individually. Masterpieces of 18th-century French furniture showing at Versailles 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Not so suspicious, however, as to reject entirely porcelain’s graceful form and alluring sheen. In the galleries: Elvis and E.T. meet an ancient Asian art form 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z “But she just wanted some family drawings and porcelains. For the rest, she said, ‘This is just stuff.’ Patricia Kluge’s Third Act Is Sparkly 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Although lids on most charcoal grills can’t peel because they’re coated with porcelain enamel, occasionally you may see small pieces of debris on the inside of the lid that look like peeling paint. Perspective | How to prepare your outdoor grill for its time to shine 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z She lays down a place mat and then creates a setting of alternating dishes — white porcelain, white and blue-patterned melamine — and gold cutlery. The Power Picnic Is Spreading 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z “It’s a very impressive piece,” Mr. Lally said, “but that’s plenty of money for a piece of porcelain from the 18th century.” The Biggest-Selling Artist at Auction Is a Name You May Not Know 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z But it's her face, sculpted in the tradition of a Mary Pickford or Mae Marsh – all Slavic cheekbones, porcelain skin and cool, intelligent eyes – that instantly mesmerises. Rooney Mara: 'I've been guarded since I was three years old' 2013-03-02T06:00:00Z Roy Lichtenstein created his “Times Square Mural” in porcelain enamel. Nick Cave Digs Deep, With a Symphony in Glass 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z I still remember the first gift I bought for my mom with my own money: a white porcelain soup tureen. I was obsessed with cooking, but my mother couldn’t care less. Boy, has she come around. 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z At a series of sales in Hong Kong and London – including the collections of Edward Chow, the JT Tai Foundation and TY Chao – outstanding pieces of Chinese porcelain began to fetch ever more remarkable prices. Julian Thompson obituary 2011-03-02T18:17:56Z These are intriguing, but they don’t preserve the originals’ character as strongly as “Vessel,” a blue porcelain bowl cloaked in a thick layer of cement. In the galleries: Washington from on high, as it was and as it was meant to be 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Unlike most exhibitions of porcelain settings, the items in this show are not showcased in vitrines, but exhibited openly, separated from visitors by only abstract metal chairs that serve as a kind of barrier. Hermitage Amsterdam's 'Dining With the Tsars' Examines Heyday of Russian Royalty 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Each vase is made from fine translucent porcelain, formulated and mixed by the designer. 50 Gifts Under $50 2010-11-22T23:02:00Z Unlike porcelain figurines, which were treated as precious objects, these fabric confections were intended for hands-on play. Picturing Black Childhood: An Artist’s Journey 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z They worked remotely, baked, took a two-mile walk each morning and refinished their porcelain kitchen sink. Quarantining With a Ghost? It’s Scary 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Instead, Thornton fills in the blanks, writing so evocatively that the reader can easily imagine the immensity of a hundred million sunflower seeds rendered in porcelain by Ai. Sociologist Sarah Thornton scrutinizes the insular art world Watching Gadsby placing teapot and teacup on the sparkling porcelain tiles of her kitchen counter is our invitation to join her in her space. Hannah Gadsby’s “Nanette” and the case for quitting comedy 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z On one occasion, she told the magazine, Mia Farrow threw a porcelain rabbit at her. Soon-Yi Previn Defends Woody Allen and Accuses Mia Farrow of Abuse 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Gilded beams crashed, porcelain roofs buckled, ash filled the lakes and embers snowed down on Beijing, where clouds of dense smoke eclipsed the sun. China Remembers a Vast Crime 2010-10-21T12:26:00Z A famille-rose vase decorated with blossoming trees and rocks in a style trying to recapture the painterly skills of the 18th century was entered as a “Republican period” porcelain, i.e., of the 20th century. Special Report: Asian Art: Chinese Nationalist Fervor Trumps Basic Facts 2011-05-26T18:00:08Z Curators asked a group of interior designers to combine Post’s formal porcelains, glassware and silver with contemporary pieces, to showcase new ideas for table settings. That old fussy china can fit your casual lifestyle. Designers talk about how. 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Its thin porcelain walls suggest Ohr, but are turned in on themselves, like a flower bud set to open. The Met Museum Sees More Clay in Its Future 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z “A round watch with two porcelain dials,” Mr. Büsser said by phone, while waiting for his flight to Shanghai. Special Report: Watches: Leaping Forward, Back in Time 2011-11-24T14:08:56Z At the same time he deplored the poor taste of many of the buyers, who chose “dull and expensive porcelains” and “garish Mandarin robes which they condemned to the oddest uses”. To have and to hold 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Julian Thompson, who has died of cancer aged 69, was a leading expert on Chinese porcelain. Julian Thompson obituary 2011-03-02T18:17:56Z Cox vividly remembers a garnished dish of fresh raw peas, mint oil and pea mousse that Rogan used to serve in delicate porcelain at his flagship restaurant L’Enclume in Cumbria. From the royal wedding menu to Nigella – why bowl food is so wildly popular 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z In an opening duet, Mr. Brown perches on Mr. Courchel in poses as pristine and breakable as porcelain. Review: Jon Kinzel’s ‘Cowhand Con Man,’ a Dance of Textures and Paradoxes 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z With shelves of colorful mugs, plates, bowls and sculptures, this is a quiet, uncrowded place to discover Britons whose inspiration in clay and porcelain translates into usable artworks. What to See and Do After Frieze London 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z It's eerie how much more mobile and expressive the faces of the porcelain pieces seem to be in the photographs than when you look directly at the ceramic models themselves. UW faculty artists get an 'A' at Traver Gallery exhibition 2012-03-08T23:36:01Z Known as kraak — apparently after the Portuguese ships, or carracks, that transported it — the porcelain became extremely popular. Museums: China's Reluctant Emperor 2011-09-07T10:55:41Z A few imported motifs did seep into the era’s furnishings and accessories: Constructivist slashes on drinking glasses, cropped flapper hairstyles on porcelain statuettes and movie ads, and skyscrapers printed on kimonos. Antiques: The Case for a 17th-Century Female British Architect 2012-03-08T23:47:52Z This goes for vines such as porcelain berry or bindweed, or just opportunistic ground dwellers such as yellow nutsedge, wiregrass, plantains and prostrate spurge. Looking back at a hot, soggy mess of a growing season 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Colonel Friedsam’s will stipulated that his collection of paintings, porcelains, historical weapons and costumes never be split up. Museums Grapple With Onerous Restrictions on Donations 2013-02-04T23:50:49Z “It’s about opulence,” said Mr. Lagerfeld, referring to the Fauve painterly colors and the porcelain flower decorations. Special Report: Haute couture: Chanel's Lion in Winter 2010-07-07T16:54:00Z The result, now at Craig F. Starr Gallery, has the potential to be daintily charming, like a display of dollhouse porcelains. What to See in New York Galleries This Week 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Souvenir shops in the principality will be selling only a handful of palace-approved memorabilia, including porcelain with the couple's names but no images, vendors have said. Monaco's bride seeking to make her own mark 2011-06-26T11:31:09Z Fine porcelain china — whether from China or Europe — used to be the ne plus ultra for American hosts and hostesses, but now rough-hewed materials and unexpected places of origin are also prized. Disrupting the Dishes 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z The porcelain manufacturers in Staffordshire, England, who made teapots understood that tea was helping to drive the colonies away from Britain, and they did not wait to exploit the rift. Ah, Tea. So Relaxing. But Its History Is Another Story. 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z In the meantime, the couple is holed up at a rented funky estate appointed with curious 1970s design relics — the mirrored powder room has a brown porcelain toilet. The Marc Jacobs Whisperer 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z The ivory-painted walls do not feature paintings but porcelain wall sconces in the shape of old gelatin molds. Critic?s Notebook: In London, Stalking the New 2011-05-25T04:14:30Z Initially a material for daily use, porcelain became an art form under the aegis of imperial households. Arts: Arts Guide 2011-01-14T12:00:04Z Resin falcons are painted white to mimic porcelain, and a pair of Warholesque portraits of the owner by the artist Skid Stewart hang over a daybed. T Magazine: The Importance of Being Nicky 2014-04-10T16:46:16Z Last week, advertisements began appearing in magazines like Entertainment Weekly offering a $39.99 porcelain commemorative plate from the Bradford Exchange. Front Row: Michelle Obama?s Fashion Sense Is Saluted on Plates 2010-04-15T01:21:00Z Her face took on the translucence of fine porcelain. Sitting With Marina 2010-05-23T21:05:00Z Irwin's porcelain and earthenware "Dusky Seaside Sparrow" borrows the manner of Italian majolica portrait plates to pay homage to a species forced into extinction when development destroyed its habitat and nesting grounds. Resistance in clay: Ceramic artists speak out against Trump, war and more in 'We the People' 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z Scores of porcelains and sundry works of art were catalogued without being given any period. Auctions: Seesaw Bidding Early in the Season 2011-09-09T11:00:09Z Some hairsplitters would argue that a toilet is just a toilet, regardless of which gender is using it; the porcelain itself has no characteristics that would identify it as male or female. Female Trouble: The Debate Over “Woman” as an Adjective 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z “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. ‘The First Lady’ re-created over 100 years of White House interiors 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z He continued to travel to the far east and worked on his comprehensive catalogue of imperial Chenghua porcelain, a massive and groundbreaking work of scholarship which remains uncompleted. Julian Thompson obituary 2011-03-02T18:17:56Z And since we’re getting our holiday season underway, second place receives a dainty collectible porcelain toilet ornament, in a gift box. Style Invitational Week 1306: PolitiCaroling — a song parody contest 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z And Richard might as well be a porcelain figurine — exquisite, immobile, infinitely fragile. | London Theater Journal: Porcelain Portrayal of a Fragile King 2012-02-03T15:48:00Z In cloisonné work, enameled color zones are separated by fine inlaid wires, while in moriage they are separated by raised porcelain ridges. Special Report: Jewelry: Enamel's Molten Beauty 2009-12-10T05:55:00Z It was a porcelain seven years in the making, which Mr. Chan invented and which he says is five times harder than steel. This Porcelain Is Tougher Than It Looks 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z At a fair, in a remote little town, I won a cheap porcelain pig at target shooting. Man and Things 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z History has logged a number of tiny porcelain or stuffed playthings that have been said to be doing the devil's bidding. 7 allegedly haunted dolls 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z Chinese ceramic and porcelain teapots, cups, saucers and bowls helped fuel the mania for Chinoiserie. Special Report: Asian Art: How Maritime Routes Led to Cultural Exchanges 2011-11-04T13:00:10Z Yet still those thrifty Anglo Saxon Protestants could not contain their desire for French silks, tapestry, porcelain, mirrors, clocks and cabinetwork. The lap of luxury 2011-07-29T22:55:02Z Once inside you walk from hand scroll to stone relief, from bronze to porcelain, happily leaping back and forth across roughly 2,000 years, for here, the art is distributed according to themes, not chronology. A Dazzling Look at the World of Taoism 2010-04-09T11:55:00Z Decorating plain Wedgwood porcelain became a stylish feminine accomplishment akin to singing and needlework. Design: A Niche of Stylish Power 2011-07-03T13:02:00Z Peaches, the fruit of immortality, are everywhere, carved on ink tablets and painted on porcelains. Small Shows at the Metropolitan Museum 2010-08-05T22:21:00Z Christie’s basked in the glory of “a world auction record for ormolu mounted porcelain.” Auctions: Buyers Scoop Up the Trophies at Auctions 2011-07-15T11:30:07Z An exceptionally rare 15th century porcelain bowl made in China that somehow turned up at a Connecticut yard sale and sold for just $35 was auctioned off Wednesday for nearly $722,000. Rare porcelain bowl sold for $35 at yard sale is auctioned off for more than $700G 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z For his more elaborate artworks like the “Brooklyn Century Vase,” porcelain is “a whole different, messy thing,” he said, because its heavy iron content increases its plasticity. His First Art Was Graffiti. Now His Pottery Is in the Met. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z That artists ever since have redone and rethought Duchamp’s revolution in porcelain is hardly news. 11 Galleries to Visit Now on the Upper East Side and in Harlem 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Shakespeare leans on a porcelain stump in Arden, the lines on his scroll available in German or English. Presence: The Art of Portrait Sculpture – review 2012-06-02T23:06:07Z In porcelain enamel, installed in 2002, it feels like a bit of the Museum of Modern Art on loan to the M.T.A. Nick Cave Goes Underground 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z Karl was perhaps even less a kid person than he was a porcelain person, but he went all out when I most needed it. Karl and Anna, a Love Story in Clothes 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z As bidders warmed up to the game, they continued to make no distinction between porcelains that were catalogued as authentic and those that were not. Auctions: Seesaw Bidding Early in the Season 2011-09-09T11:00:09Z The work consists of roughly 100 million hand-painted porcelain sunflower seeds covering a vast expanse of floor to the depth of about four inches, and visitors were invited to wade right in. Critic?s Notebook: At Tate Modern, Seeds of Discontent by the Ton 2010-10-18T21:39:00Z There’s a tapestry room, a silver room, a porcelain room and even a sofa room. 10 of the best museums in Europe… that you’ve probably never heard of 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z They both have trouble drinking hot mint tea from glass cups instead of porcelain with handles, and they both “wrench” their shoulders in acts of violence. Review | Who’s telling the truth? ‘Tangerine’ is a twisty tale of friendship, death and deceit 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z There are miniature houses, porcelain figurines, even an exhibit on "doll technology." Wednesday is last day for Bellevue's Museum of Doll Art 2012-02-29T22:10:05Z Presented with furniture the men had also made, the ceramic offerings, then limited to a few dishes, “stupefied” Ms. Fisher because they were neither made of porcelain nor decorated or gilt in the French tradition. Are You an Astier Person? 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Look no further than one of the five La Vaissellerie porcelain and crystal shops in Paris. Something for the Kitchen to Remind You of Paris 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z The gentlest piece is a peace symbol made of porcelain flowers in which two blue butterflies shelter. Review | In the galleries: Stable’s spaces make room for lots of art and much conversation 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z For more than a century, Spanish ships laden with Chinese porcelain and silk followed the North Pacific Current to northern California, then south. Finding the Strait of Juan de Fuca 2012-11-21T22:30:06Z The line comprises two ranges: a delicate array of bone china in 48 pieces and a haberdashery-inspired porcelain collection of 22 items. Ted Baker Launches a Twofold Dinnerware Collection 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z The armchairs were deep, the bathtub capacious; there were books and paintings and oddments scattered about, collections of silver cigar cases, stuffed birds and precious porcelains. Slow Travel: Walking in Wales 2013-05-24T17:03:36Z It was made of concrete and varnished with porcelain, and wherever you were, within thousands of miles, you strode in its shadow. Photo Requests from Solitary Confinement 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z More upmarket models may be in the form of large portable buildings, each holding several porcelain toilets. Why Glastonbury 2012 is going down the pan 2010-10-18T19:00:00Z Late fall and winter allow time to remove those invasive vines creeping along woodland floor and up trees, including porcelain berry, bittersweet, wisteria and honeysuckle. Perspective | The winter garden is full of promise and productivity. Don’t let it go to waste. 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z We used to drive down to France every summer when we were kids and my Mum would stop off in Limoges, which is famous for porcelain. Top 10 tips for interior design 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z But the historic guest house with its antiques, fine porcelains and paintings will not be used for the summit, although it has 14 perfectly appointed guest rooms. Beds of state: Making the visiting African leaders feel at home The numbered Jun porcelain vessels on record are respectively preserved in the National Palace Museum in Taipei and the Palace Museum in Beijing. Special Report: Asian Art: Chinese Nationalist Fervor Trumps Basic Facts 2011-05-26T18:00:08Z Meanwhile, I was acquiring anything and everything I could afford: antique cookie jars and bronze plaques, porcelain plates and American pottery, particularly McCoy. Peter Marino Takes Center Stage In Miami 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z They include 18th century French furniture, bronzes, Chinese porcelains, and Limoges enamels, as well as paintings by Holbein, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Turner, Gainsborough and Van Dyck. The Frick Collection Names a New Director 2011-05-19T15:04:30Z There’s a rich display of Spanish colonial art, and an illuminating gallery of Philadelphia’s free Black clockmakers, porcelain makers and silversmiths. Gehry’s Quiet Interventions Reshape the Philadelphia Museum 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z Beyond those nostalgic for Mr. Buatta’s bygone world, and the many who are missing the man himself, what is the market these days for porcelain asparagus spears, Chinese side tables and tufted chintz slipper chairs? The Death of Chintz 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z “Suddenly my green eyes were green. My red hair was flaming red. My skin was porcelain white,” Fleming remarked in a 1990 interview. Rhonda Fleming, film star of ‘40s and ‘50s, dies at 97 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z “Plates that I had been saving, I now use them every day,” said Ms. Chautin, who has also made a collection of porcelain tableware featuring delicate floral patterns. It’s a Fine Time for Fine China 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z With a lovingly painted, white porcelain tea service on a round black marble table in the foreground, it could be a scene from one of the Marquis de Sade’s milder narratives. Art in Review: JOHN CURRIN: ?New Paintings? 2010-11-19T07:00:00Z He was amused by the plan he had hatched for this porcelain pissotière, which he intended to use as a prank to upset the stuffy American art crowd. Putting modern art on the map 2012-08-24T20:35:17Z Unfortunately, as Sotheby’s catalog reported, there were “restorations to the porcelain,” which in the old days doomed porcelain. Auctions: Buyers Scoop Up the Trophies at Auctions 2011-07-15T11:30:07Z A third sale, which starts Thursday, includes works of art and porcelain from Spencer House, which overlooks London's Green Park. Art from Diana's family homes to go on the block 2010-07-06T22:03:00Z An especially magnificent recent painting offers a close-up of the porcelain fragment. Deep Looking, With Vija Celmins 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z They are porcelain figures the size of an adult hand. You can't resolve your way through New Year's grief 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z Later, he describes a porcelain slave’s head that sits on the coffee table of his wife’s aristocratic grandmother. How Moving to France and Having Children Led a Black American to Rethink Race 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Inside each galette there is one lucky charm, usually a tiny porcelain figurine, ranging from Harry Potter to miniature Mona Lisa paintings. Joyeux Noel: How France celebrates Christmas 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z New art forms and styles proliferated: porcelain, lacquer, luxury silks. The Week Ahead: Sept. 26 ? Oct. 2 2010-09-24T16:00:00Z Earthenware, with its coarser texture, is preferred to porcelain. The new ruralism: how the pastoral idyll is taking over our cities 2012-11-18T20:30:00Z This is not an abstract art film, as one might expect from the man who filled a vast space in London’s Tate Modern with 100 million hand-sculpted and painted porcelain sunflower seeds. 'Human Flow,' Ai Weiwei's feature-film debut, takes on the global refugee crisis 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z To reinforce her point, Eu took a sledgehammer and bludgeoned a porcelain toilet on the steps of the California State Capitol in 1969. 11 historically significant toilets 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z Breakfast casserole recipes are practical — they are generally super easy to make, designed to feed a crowd, endlessly versatile, and offer a complete meal all in one porcelain baking dish. 15 breakfast casserole recipes worth rolling out of bed for 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Once inside the palazzo, you’d have to make conversation about the beautiful objects your host collected, his etched glasses, his gold sconces, or bawdy statuettes of lovers acquired from the porcelain factory in Meissen. On the Trail of a Lover Boy in the Age of Enlightenment 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z But, she added, visitors had access to a cash-only coffee machine while she was in prison upstate, though “it doesn’t come in porcelain cups,” as the tea appears to in the show. Seen ‘Inventing Anna’? Here’s What It Gets Right (and Wrong) 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z A newly discovered 1850s porcelain statue depicts the slave Uncle Tiff cradling a white toddler, based on characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Antiques: A Portraitist Considered the ?Titian of Louisiana? 2011-12-15T21:47:17Z On the third floor, a row of 10 figures in polychrome wood or porcelain from Mr. Koons’s “Banality” series of 1988 form a single confrontational row in a narrow gallery. ‘Jeff Koons: A Retrospective’ Opens at the Whitney 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z She displays her more minimalist white porcelain vessels in juxtaposition with his pieces on inset shelves. Where Outsider Art Got a Warm Welcome Before It Was Cool 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z The fountain on the left, labelled “White,” is made of spotless porcelain and mounted on an Art Deco-ish base. Elliott Erwitt’s Visual One-Liners 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Isn’t the Cat Lady too young to have such a dowdy and extensive collection of porcelain cats? An Artist Stands Before Her Fun House Mirror 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Three unwieldy boxes of porcelain collect dust in the basement of my building. The French Count Who Turned His Home Into a Museum to Honor His Dead Son 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z Sometimes this is hard to believe, as with the perfect little porcelain flowers on the better-behaved side of “Bloemenhouder,” but there are clues, like glazed handles the length of monkeys’ tails. Review: Francesca DiMattio, ‘Domestic Sculpture,’ at Salon 94 Bowery 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z But Prague Thrift Store, Ms. Szende said, offers “toys, clothing, electronic equipment, antiques, souvenirs, porcelain and crystal.” In Transit Blog: Shop Delivers Deals and Donations in Prague 2011-12-22T11:42:41Z For another video, Weitz dipped her own hand in porcelain slip and let it dry, creating a crackling petrifaction effect on her skin; her dusty, chalky-looking body then appeared a decaying sculpture itself. Julie Weitz's 'Touch Museum' tweaks time and space 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z For a hard-working kitchen sink, though, nothing substitutes for porcelain enamel. How to replace enamel on a cast-iron sink A nymph and a satyr sunbathe in a painting by the Swiss Symbolist Arnold Bocklin, in view of a silver-gilded, carved-wood gander and an urn teeming with porcelain birds and flowers. Art Review: Art Imitates Movies in a Series of Scenes 2010-12-23T22:22:15Z Ms. Belanger’s sculptures, made with stoneware, porcelain and concrete, allude to recognizable objects and yet blur their references. What to See in New York City Art Galleries This Week 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z The owner of Ai Weiwei’s heap of porcelain pebbles “executed in 2010” held on to it for no more than one year. Auctions: London Auctions Highlight Insatiable Appetite for Contemporary Art 2011-02-18T17:00:06Z In the middle of the ground level, a large platform topped by black marble-patterned porcelain tile displays one of Ms. Donovan’s sculptures of aggregated spheres made of silver Mylar. In Williamsburg, Designing for Work-Life Balance 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Rachel Lambert Mellon, better known as Bunny, spent her lifetime collecting whatever caught her eye, from antique porcelains and shaker baskets to abstract paintings by Rothko and Diebenkorn. All 43 Works From Bunny Mellon’s Collection Sell at Sotheby’s Auction 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Japanese and Chinese porcelain was either bought in London galleries or imported from abroad. Leighton House: a private palace of art 2010-04-16T23:09:00Z The ceramics hall, for example, currently displays Imari porcelain wares on loan from the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka. A Taiwan Museum Featuring All of Asia 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Now, two months later, next to porcelain figurines of a roaring lion and a sitting dog, the Silver Bear statuette decorates a shelf in Mujic's living room. Bosnian toothless gypsy's unlikely accolade 2013-04-12T15:03:09Z Born a tailor’s son in 1841 and raised in Paris, he decorated porcelains to pay for art school. Art Review: Artist in Retreat: ?Late Renoir? in Philadelphia 2010-06-17T21:18:00Z The museum has more than 700 works of art, including paintings, porcelain figurines and sculptures, many donated to the museum by members of the club. That Shaggy Mutt? At Dog Museums, Our Drooling Companions Are the Stars 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z On 5, Mr. Korban found a lot of 21 porcelain monkeys, about six inches in height, dressed in elaborate period costumes. Encounters : For Ryan Korban, Luxury-Minded Interior Designer, More is More 2014-03-28T20:41:11Z There are also masses of Chinese Export porcelain, golden candelabras, and marble busts. Doyle New York auctions off the collection of fashion legend Adolfo 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z A tiny plastic or porcelain baby traditionally is hidden inside the cake, and good fortune is supposed to follow the eater who gets the slice with the baby inside. Perspective | Celebrate Mardi Gras with drinks that taste like New Orleans. Baby included. 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z And the music, produced by Joseph Abate, is bursting with pinpoint detail, almost porcelain in its balance of structure and fragility. Two Tony-Winning ‘Hamilton’ Stars Step Out With New Albums 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z An array of books, drawings and porcelain figurines are now crowded into overstuffed display cases. That Shaggy Mutt? At Dog Museums, Our Drooling Companions Are the Stars 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z Even her looks – porcelain skin, dark hair and dramatic eyebrows – are eminently more London than LA. Lily Collins: ‘I want to dig deep, tell the truth and be more brave’ 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z The exhibited work, Sunflower Seeds, was made up of 100 million painted porcelain "seeds" scattered over a large area. Chinese artist felt detainment coming, wife says 2011-04-06T15:35:10Z The result is a dense, strong porcelain with an unusual shiny luster. This Porcelain Is Tougher Than It Looks 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z And while the white porcelain dinner set commissioned for the imperial family is lovely, it's a long way from the great porcelain "Moon Jar" at the show's start. LACMA's lovely show on Korea in a time of transformation 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z On a wall above Robin Benway’s dining room table rest dozens of porcelain thimbles, each one housed in its own tiny curio-cabinet shelf. In her sixth book for teens — 'Far From the Tree,' a National Book Award finalist — Robin Benway strikes at the heart 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z When he writes about porcelain, you immediately understand that this is material made for a perfectionist: Working in porcelain takes patience as well as skill. The European Obsession with Porcelain 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z A porcelain clown figure seated at a makeup table seems a favorite. At 90, Jerry Lewis’s Mouth Runneth Over 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z The Telegraph's critic Dominic Cavendish wrote: "By turns icily impatient and glowering, but thawing too for telling moments, Kidman brilliantly suggests an intelligent woman compacted of porcelain and steel. Being no-nonsense, she's often funny." Nicole Kidman returns to the London stage as a scientist in 'Photograph 51' 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Here you can find Japanese scrolls, medieval French books of hours, Chinese porcelain, Roman mosaics, Scandinavian ceramics, Italian glassware and a surprising quantity of humble-looking folk art and Americana. Art Review: Winter Antiques Show at Park Avenue Armory 2013-01-24T22:30:22Z Porcelain flooring was imported from England, but as demand for indoor restrooms grew, American manufacturers started to produce smaller unglazed porcelain tiles. Tiny tiles are back in a big way 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z A new addition to Made In’s line of handsome yet utilitarian porcelain, it’s a standard 9 inches in diameter, inside, rim to rim, and 10.7 inches wide overall. A Pie Dish Made of Porcelain 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z Weiwei recently filled the Tate Modern's turbine hall with 100 million porcelain sunflower seeds. Weiwei sculpture heads to London 2011-03-15T17:13:10Z We both looked around the room for a moment, taking in Bowie’s porcelain skin, shock of orange hair and glam. Photographer Mick Rock’s exhibit looks back at the rise of David Bowie 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z He created the 11 porcelain disks at France’s famed Sèvres manufactory, and they have never been shown publicly before. At Museums, a Mix of Old and New 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Hard-paste porcelain, the kind used to this day, appeared there later, in the 13th century. It’s a Fine Time for Fine China 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Inside the cafe, Hello Kitty is everywhere, from the porcelain bowls and napkins to the tables and white booths, which are adorned with a pattern of the signature bow. Taking Tea in Hong Kong With Hello Kitty 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z Confined to the home, women focused on furnishings, porcelain, jewelry, lace and the like, not great paintings and sculptures that made reputations. Opinion: The Art of the Hunt 2013-04-27T18:35:02Z What has been substituted is more like a fixed, prosthetic porcelain smile. | 'The New York Idea': Love in City of Intemperate Mores 2011-01-27T03:01:13Z The use of slip without glaze is highly unusual on porcelain, although typical on stoneware, with which it bonds more completely. Critic?s Notebook: At Tate Modern, Seeds of Discontent by the Ton 2010-10-18T21:39:00Z At the presentation journalists leaned in to inspect the clothes and stroked and petted them with the extreme care usually reserved for precious porcelain vases or newborn babies. Chanel's casual chic vs. Givenchy's extreme art 2011-01-25T23:56:11Z As part of the tradition, a plastic or porcelain baby is placed inside the cake, and the person who finds it is tasked with bringing the king cake the following year. Mardi Gras: What is king cake? 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z The craze gradually spread to interiors and textiles, from the tiled walls of merchant houses to gilded chinoiserie pavilions specially built to display princely collections of the precious porcelain. | Delft Touch 2013-05-07T22:45:47Z And he might as well be a porcelain figurine — exquisite, immobile, infinitely fragile. Arts & Leisure: ?Richard II,? ?Madness of King George? and ?Collaborators? in London 2012-02-12T06:00:50Z It was actually a porcelain urinal made in an industrial factory. Can Agatha Christie be political? 2013-05-27T15:14:54Z Chinese jade and porcelain were recently stolen from the Oriental Museum at Durham University, but Detective Chief Superintendent Daber declined to speculate on whether the two crimes were related. ArtsBeat: Chinese Artifacts Stolen from Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam Museum 2012-04-23T18:16:27Z In a nod to the museum's championing of ceramics, the courtyard is paved with 11,000 handmade porcelain tiles, arranged in 15 different patterns. London's V&A goes underground for new gallery 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z George, a funeral home director in Brockton, Massachusetts, watched as the formaldehyde pulsed its way into the body lying before him on the porcelain embalming table. America’s painkiller nightmare: Legal drugs are laying waste to our families and friends 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z The 4,370-piece porcelain service became a symbol of the era’s excess, although no public funds were used to pay for it. In first lady, Nancy Reagan found the role of a lifetime 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z Her arrangements — of, say, small wooden and porcelain figurines atop a tangle of netting and string, giving way to clusters of horns and glass — are as compelling as they are improbable. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in June 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z He delights in the sensation of the heat against his face, the feel of the porcelain on his skin. An Unnamed Girl, a Speculative History 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Objects in Gouthière’s time were first modeled in wood, wax or porcelain, pressed between blocks of compressed sand and removed. Our Midas Moment, From Galleries to Artisans 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z The work in question is "Moon Jar," a 16-inch porcelain vessel of a distinctive and highly coveted type. LACMA's lovely show on Korea in a time of transformation 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z The low-budget movie produced for just $6.5 million tells the story of a young husband and wife who become terrorized by a porcelain doll given as a gift. Ben Affleck's 'Gone Girl' snatches U.S. box office title 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z In one gallery, he added a virtual dining table, with porcelain and silver tableware, to offer a glimpse into the lives of 18th century French aristocrats. Detroit Institute of Arts' New Gallery: Islamic Works 2010-03-09T00:45:00Z The subjects are weightless or nearly so, but the artist renders them in such substantial materials as stoneware and porcelain. In the galleries: Attention to detail 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Canton porcelain dishes on the table and paintings of Macao on the walls show the link between Salem and the China trade. Three-and-a-half centuries of mythos surrounds Salem’s House of the Seven Gables 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Local artist Franklin’s design was directly inspired by a SAM trademark: the museum’s Porcelain Room, where more than a thousand exquisite examples of historical European and Asian porcelain objects are on display. A mini-golf course at Olympic Sculpture Park? These artists are designing one 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z To present those images on furniture, he burned collages of them onto porcelain tiles that serve as the surface of steel-framed cabinets, tables, and chairs. Architect Pedro Barrail Creates Furniture with the Imagery of Paraguay 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Edwin Low and Mei Ling Lee started Supermama five years ago, but opened this restful space stocked with porcelain and home wares last March. Five Places to Shop in Singapore 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Their alternating tenderness and tetchiness with each other is made slightly absurd by the almost oppressively cosy atmosphere; there are dolls and porcelain figurines everywhere. Magical realism 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The cups and mugs are stoneware or porcelain, depending on the style. How to remove moss from an asphalt roof 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z The classic tweed jackets in porcelain colors worn with the “jeans” or decorated leggings. Special Report: Fashion: Reflecting on the Future 2011-01-25T18:18:38Z Asian collectors have long prized porcelain vases as much as paintings, but until recently, art lovers elsewhere largely treated ceramics like a second-class craft. In London, Collectors Get Fired Up for Ceramics 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z She works small and mainly in glazed porcelain, pushing traditionally demure tabletop figurines into compromising, often ribald positions while downsizing the heroic conventions of royal portraiture. Art in Review: ANNIE ATTRIDGE: ?Hearts of Oak? 2011-02-03T22:05:46Z The result is a series of plain white pieces, each made from a single piece of porcelain in a seemingly simple, but subtly complex shape, defined entirely by how it will be used. Design: Keyed to Detail, No Matter How Crazy 2011-11-13T14:02:00Z Two cupboards offer an assortment of tableware, including a pint-size teapot in pink porcelain for 11 euros. | Tokyo on the Seine 2013-07-08T20:22:53Z Then again, who can adjudge the value of an orange-and-black Art Deco porcelain box topped with an evil, grinning clown? T Magazine: Pigs and a Blanket 2011-09-29T14:00:20Z Eventually, on March 23, 1857, the first passenger elevator was installed in the retail establishment of the New York porcelain and glass dealer Haughwout and Company. The most important invention in the history of the modern city 2014-02-23T13:00:00Z Other treasures included an 18th-century German piano, porcelain vases from China and Japan, mirrors and boxes with intricate gold filigree work and ceiling murals depicting Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama’s journey to India by sea. Portuguese mansion a window into India’s colonial history 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z However broad his own interests, he always seemed to have room for other people’s, and over the years he sent me vintage prints in honor of my love of tennis and porcelain. Karl and Anna, a Love Story in Clothes 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Clusters of tiny porcelain flowers planted in toilets and sinks of the hospital examination rooms reflect his penchant for using this traditional material in unlikely ways. Ai Weiwei Takes His Work to a Prison 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z The traveling show features recent archaeological finds and a variety of lavish decorative arts including jewelry, devotional statues, textiles and porcelain, many of which are being displayed in the United States for the first time. Ming dynasty finds the stars of 'Royal Taste' at USC Pacific Asia Museum 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z Here porcelain bowls hit with chopsticks sound like a million dollars. A centennial tribute to 'The Divine Mr. Harrison' 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z When word of Salinger's purported porcelain reached the author's family, Kohl says, the Salingers sued. How much would you pay for John Lennon's toilet? 2011-01-06T00:44:04Z At the base sat a porcelain vase Ms. Wexler had filled with American flags. G’night Forever, Little Edie! Grey Gardens Is Empty at Last. 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Around 160 works are on view in all, including porcelain, wooden sculptures, prints and paintings. What's On This Week Around the World 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Besides being perfectly, shiny white, as only glazed porcelain can be, “Michael Jackson and Bubbles” was noteworthy as the first of Koons’s perfectly sealed, oversized Fabergé eggs. When Jeff Koons painted Michel Jackson white 2013-06-10T16:18:00Z He returned in the 1870s, when he had access to the interior of Japan and collected much from seed, including the porcelain berry. How America’s frenzy for Japanese plants brought beauties — and a mega-weed 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z In some ways, then, the owl dome certainly seems like a more practical structure than Ai Weiwei's porcelain owl habitat. Artists devise wildlife-friendly works for San Francisco's Presidio 2010-06-03T20:50:00Z Never showy or gratuitous, it was a performance as delicate and fine-grained as the porcelain that her doll-like character, Celeste, sometimes seemed to be made of. Nicole Kidman belongs in our pantheon of great actresses 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Spend a few hours browsing the stately rooms, which feature everything from paintings and porcelain to medieval arms and armor, and follow with lunch in the glass-enclosed cafe. Two favorite neighborhoods in London: Marylebone and Bloomsbury 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z A swindler in northeast China is called a “porcelain chipper.” Left Behind by China’s Economic Miracle 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z That said, while you may not need your grandmother's porcelain dinnerware anymore, but don't put her crystal glassware away too quickly. The only summer wines you need, according to a wine pro 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z De Waal is well aware that for many, porcelain means a knickknack on Grandma's mantelpiece. 'The White Road' is an obsessive journey into the world of porcelain 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z The third floor is the province of Italy and Spain, but also Mughal carpets and Chinese porcelain. The Frick Savors the Opulence of Emptiness 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z “It was so beautiful. It was almost like porcelain, like a doll. I used to go to a lot of museums back then and look at all the Pre-Raphaelite paintings. She reminded me of them.” Moving Through the Lens 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z This stunning white apparition rises like a porcelain bowl from a podium set in restored parkland, between the breakers of the Atlantic and the commanding backdrop of Lion's Rock, Devil's Peak and Table Mountain. Perfect pitch: Cape Town's Green Point stadium 2010-05-30T20:30:00Z In the 1950s, a New Orleans bakery popularized hiding a porcelain baby inside the cake, a practice that reportedly traces back to 18th-century France, supposedly to represent Jesus, Eater reports. History of Mardi Gras: Little known facts about the annual celebration 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Other works are closer to standard musical instruments: “Sixty-Four Bells and a Bow” is a collection of glass, metal and porcelain bells and a violin bow. Art Review: Christian Marclay: Festival at the Whitney Museum 2010-07-08T21:49:00Z The tableware is just as retro: commemorative Kennedy and Bush plates, English transferware dotted with pheasants, and gilt-edged porcelain banquet plates. The dish: Why vintage tableware is making a comeback in restaurants and homes 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z A porcelain dish with edges finished with diamond polishing is embedded and intended to be used as a picnic set. Bugatti L'Or Blanc Grand Sport at Miami Art Basel 2011-11-29T23:06:44Z Yet another abrupt jump was made when 19th-century French silver, porcelains and bronzes followed on the heels of Far Eastern art. Auctions: In France, the Spirit of Bygone Auctions 2011-03-11T13:30:07Z But older pieces will also be on display, including tobacco leaf pattern plates from 18th-century China and porcelain chargers from the Dutch East India Company that date from 1670-1720. Art in NYC This Week 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z But beneath that porcelain surface, she’s a scheming empress of fury. Review: The Anti-Clinton Brigade’s Four-Letter Word Obsession 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Then, 15 years later, the preposterous porcelain party in Rylan Clark’s mouth came along and bit a massive chunk out of any remaining notion of natural gnashers on the telly. From guybrows to manbags: eight unlikely things that Friends popularised 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z Instead of mailing her a porcelain tea set or personalized table linens, the impish Duchamp sent several pages of text: a set of instructions that told Suzanne how to create the wedding present he imagined. | An Exhibition and Video Puts Art in the Hands of the Beholder 2014-04-29T17:22:56Z At times the singer, almost never seen without an outfit that suggests the creation of a mad inventor, appears only in flesh-tone bra and panties, platinum-blond bangs, red lips and porcelain skin. Music: Girl Pop?s Lady Gaga Makeover 2010-07-21T19:40:00Z She entertained with French cut crystal, French porcelain, French sterling silver cutlery, French souffles and two French maids. | D.C's Dinnertime Diplomacy 2011-11-23T23:08:15Z One afternoon, she bought a bag of porcelain clay and set to work. Ann Demeulemeester Doesn’t Miss Fashion at All. She Has Other Plans. 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Nearby hangs a more detailed portrait of an Asian American woman with a pale complexion that appears to be cracking — shattering the stereotype of “porcelain” skin. At the de Young, a Rousing Showcase for Bay Area Artists 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z His quest for fine English and Chinese export porcelain, fanciful floral chintz fabrics and quirky accessories became a lifelong passion. Design royalty is all atwitter about the Prince of Chintz auction 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Typical photo poses include sitting on a beach lounger in a bikini while drinking from a coconut, or reclining in a rustic kitchen in skinny jeans, a cute porcelain bowl of vegetables in one hand. Green is the new black: the unstoppable rise of the healthy-eating guru 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z There is also the chance to meet and talk with artist Chava Rosenzweig, whose porcelain stars installation explores the impact of the Holocaust on subsequent generations. This week's new events 2013-01-26T06:00:16Z Technological innovations on view include foldable eyeglasses, and porcelain and glass vessels trimmed with electrodeposited silver. Antiques: Newark Recalls Its Lustrous Metals Past 2014-01-02T18:49:37Z Now the damaged porcelain with an imperial aura was chased with an enthusiasm that owed little to art and much to its symbolism as a badge of glorified cultural identity. Reclaiming the Badges of Cultural Identity 2010-10-22T11:30:00Z Above the original wood paneling and French doors, Wiseman has installed an elaborate ornamental ceiling, a ghostly arabesque pattern of white plaster branches and 500 hand-finished porcelain cherry blossoms. T Magazine: The Secret Gardener 2012-10-05T14:00:44Z “The Artistic Table: Contemporary Tastemakers Present Inspired Table Settings” highlights Post’s collections of Russian imperial and 18th-century French porcelain and other luxurious tableware from her years of entertaining. That old fussy china can fit your casual lifestyle. Designers talk about how. 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Cobalt is silvery-blue metal in its raw form, and was used in Chinese porcelain and Babylon ceramic glazes because of the vibrant hue created when fired. Cobalt Blue Is Color Rushing Our Summer 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z Their heads were crowned with porcelain plates or with industrial items that ranged from work tools to giant paper clips. 2010-01-16T06:48:00Z And Ai Weiwei piled millions of sculpted and painted porcelain sunflower seeds for an austere installation. Sotheby's exhibits contemporary art featuring flowers 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Its owners respect customers by giving them proper porcelain mugs and avoid putting on the reams of adverts and trailers that precede showings at chain cinemas. Cine-files: The Palace, Longridge 2012-11-13T17:21:20Z The coating is fired into the porcelain, which, according to the company, means it can’t rub off. How to deal with stubborn mildew and rust stains in toilets 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z The space, decorated with an impressive porcelain chandelier, stocks the creations of Ippolita Rostagno, who was inspired by Henry Moore sculptures. A Jewelry Store and a Fashion Pop-Up Open, and Celebrating James Bond With Swarovski — Scouting Report 2012-10-03T22:04:57Z The beauty of Milan is its seemingly endless supply of disused industrial buildings, where young designers can exhibit polished wood and delicate porcelain against raw concrete. When is a chair not a chair? 2010-04-19T12:12:00Z Fascination with ceramics as an art form dates to the Middle Ages, when Chinese porcelain was introduced via trade routes from the East. European Cities Join Forces to Attract Ceramics Enthusiasts 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z There were the “heroic moments of an artistic golden age” in the 17th and 18th centuries, as craftsmen became innovators in silver and porcelain. Ah, Tea. So Relaxing. But Its History Is Another Story. 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z The porcelain stirs up thoughts of White House culinary and hospitality traditions and the accomplishments and tragedies of the hosts. Presidential Fine China, With Patterns Reflecting America 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z It is one of several exhibitions showing at the museum, including a show of 18th century porcelain art, and an exhibition dedicated to jewels by the Italian luxury jeweler, Bulgari. Björk in Montreal and Flower Art in Melbourne: Global Arts Guide 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Your plot: Lots with trees tend to be neglected, and neglect leads to the arrival of heavy-duty weeds, particularly invasive vines such as porcelain berry, English ivy, honeysuckle and poison ivy. Perspective | Why the shade garden is so underrated — and how to create your own 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z After slightly reconfiguring the rooms, the couple added Italian porcelain floors and patent leather wallpaper. California’s Marrakesh: A Country Club That’s Chic Again 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z To her, she says, the experience of being gay is captured in the delicate “plink” of a porcelain cup meeting its place in a saucer. Hannah Gadsby’s “Nanette” and the case for quitting comedy 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z You must cut the stem near the ground and then paint the wound with the applicable herbicide, and such candidates include porcelain berry, English ivy, trumpet creeper, and weedy honeysuckles, bittersweet and wisterias. Perspective | Whether or not Roundup is safe, the gardener has better options 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z There are paintings, photographs, etchings, sculptures and porcelains. This show house looks like a million bucks — make that $35 million 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Works perceived as symbols of traditional China, like the porcelain seated Guanyin perhaps made in the late 14th century, were competed over with a passion. Special Report: Asian Art: Chinese Nationalist Fervor Trumps Basic Facts 2011-05-26T18:00:08Z Then store the leftover oil in the fridge, where it will crown your condiment collection like so many porcelain flowers on a grandmother’s coffee table. You’ll Want to Put This Chile-Garlic Oil on Everything 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z We were not alone, the dirty roar of the sound system came in and out with the suctioning door and people spewed into the porcelain pots, crashed around, and laughed in the rattling stalls. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z It’s a good shop that imports a selection of European antiques, including Chinese and French porcelains, some continental furniture, and so much more. A Shopper's Guide to Antique Chests 2012-10-29T05:20:13.863Z You can’t say the show lacks variety; items include a 17th-century Tibetan tapestry coat, a jade pendant from the Han dynasty, a Japanese wood sculpture of a Noh actor, porcelain, ivory, kimonos and Buddhist art. From 12th Century B.C. to 2017, Art in Startling Variety 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z There are companies that apply porcelain enamel to signs, motorcycle parts and other objects. How to replace enamel on a cast-iron sink In the winter I like the look of creamy, porcelain skin, with a crisp pop of color. | Kaley Cuoco 2011-02-07T18:55:20Z The latter piece, titled “The Barmecide Feast,” is well built — down to the corny Late Empire porcelains employed as backdrop on the luminous white set. Oh, the selfies you'll make at L.A.'s 14th Factory, where the art is so social. Our Instagram tour 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z The town that once made porcelain for the imperial court has been saved from bankruptcy by making sunflower seeds. Tate Modern's sunflower seeds: the world in the palm of your hand 2010-10-11T13:08:00Z Karl didn’t play tennis, and he didn’t care for porcelain the way I did, but it was his quiet way of being attuned to other people’s minds. Karl and Anna, a Love Story in Clothes 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z The 11-story hotel offers clever design touches in nearly every detail, from the Space Invader-patterned elevator to the closet door handles, porcelain animal heads. Hotel Review: Click Clack Hotel in Bogotá, Colombia 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Most contemporary Chinese art is a product made for western consumption, just as willow-pattern plates or porcelain vases were shipped out in huge quantities for the western market. Tate Modern's sunflower seeds: the world in the palm of your hand 2010-10-11T13:08:00Z This she does while perched on an outdoor porcelain throne, barely reacting to the dialogue-free fantasy that unfolds. ‘Chris March’s The Butt-Cracker Suite!’ at Here 2012-12-01T03:33:58Z The real UFOs at Frick Madison, expected in the first quarter of 2021, may therefore be the decorative arts: all those gilded clocks, all that Meissen porcelain, relocated from plutocratic salons into cubes of concrete. 11 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2021 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Most of the models seen in the Vivid Solutions Gallery show wear black lingerie, but their principal costume is paint that makes their skin resemble ebony porcelain. Review | In the galleries: Artistic reflections on what mortality leaves behind 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z On my way out of town the next morning, I stopped by Linda’s, a 1920s house full of Mexican artwork and delicate porcelain and set about with roses and olive trees. Linda Ronstadt’s Borderland 2013-12-27T17:32:15Z With silk curtains and porcelain vases, Hitler’s designers suggested an internal world that was both cultivated and peaceful. Hitler at home: How the Nazi PR machine remade the Führer’s domestic image and duped the world 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z The dining room is done up with corals, porcelain fruits, shells, botanical prints, a Venetian chandelier and a Chinese wicker container in the shape of a Pekingese pup. | The Modern-Day Melting Pot of Tangier 2013-12-02T17:46:32Z Q: We installed porcelain tile in our hallway and kitchen 20 years ago. Cracked kitchen tiles? Try a patch. 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z Her plants suggest a magic of movement that distinguishes her work from rigid glass or porcelain flowers. | Carmen Almon, The Naturalist 2013-08-21T19:11:13Z The extraterrestrial takes over in her new pieces at Tracy Williams, most mobiles made from leather scraps and porcelain casts of human and animal heads. Art Trek: From Hot to Schlock: Holland Cotter Tours Chelsea Galleries 2014-04-03T22:41:59Z There is one place — and apparently only one place in the whole country — where you can get a classic cast-iron sink recoated with true porcelain enamel. How to replace enamel on a cast-iron sink She was a striking woman but hardly burdened with her father’s volcanic charisma or even her mother’s porcelain beauty. Perspective | Lisa Marie Presley understood how to live life as a nepo baby 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z The ceramist Inge Vincents works exclusively in white porcelain, but there is nothing boring about the monochromatic designs on display in the showroom attached to her studio. In Copenhagen, Shops with Studios Attached 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z There’s no Balzac drama, no courtship, no intrigue, just a rush to the porcelain and, if you’re reckless with money, a cheap glass of barely palatable wine. Perspective | What we loathe about intermissions 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z These waist-high pieces in glazed stoneware and porcelain descend equally from monumental urns, architectural columns and Voulkos stacks. At the Pit in Glendale, sculpture that keeps you on your toes 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Then I dropped one of the porcelain knobs she had special-ordered for the linen closet. David Sedaris: The IHOP Years 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z At Either End of the Ceramics Route China's National Museum joins forces with two British museums to celebrate porcelain. The New Season 2012-09-07T21:04:55Z Tables were set with silver cutlery, porcelain plates, butter dishes and candlesticks. Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for an outdoor summer feast 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z The materials include Egyptian scarabs, Wedgwood porcelain wafers and blood-red feldspar cylinders flecked with gold. When Form Meets Function: Cuff Links Throughout the Centuries 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z My porcelain vessels get wrapped in tissue, and then in bubble-wrap, and are crated up and lifted into the backs of vans, and I sign a piece of paper and they are gone. Small things 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z For that installation Mr. Ai and an army of assistants arranged 100 million handmade porcelain sunflower seeds on an enormous gallery floor. Movie Review: ‘Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry,’ on the Chinese Artist 2012-07-26T22:42:29Z He did so in radical ways imported from outside academic convention—from his first profession, as a decorator of porcelain china. Hating Renoir is Just a Phase 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z He loves to collect beautiful things — some of which are employed in the events he designs — including silver, Chinese export porcelain, paintings that depict what he called “magical” scenes, and taxidermy. A Living Room Fit for a King 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z And that 1988 porcelain sculpture of a topless blonde holding Pink Panther? Can Jeff Koons Teach Me to Paint? 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z A Very Foodie Christmas | T’s Picks, Part One , , Nymphenberg’s new line of porcelain dinnerware was inspired by the work of Ruth Gurvich. | T's Picks, Part One 2010-12-10T19:30:00Z She dug for fossils in Ethiopia’s Great Rift Valley, sought out old textiles from Central Asia, frequented auction houses in London and studied porcelain production in a remote part of China. A Collection of Many ‘Things’ Comes on the Auction Market 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z The Chinese provocateur Ai Weiwei covered much of the floor of the Tate Modern’s immense Turbine Hall with several inches of hand-painted porcelain sunflower seeds. When the Art Stared Back and Other Trends 2010-12-17T14:43:28Z The merchants who followed in their wake brought back to the markets of Europe spices, textiles and porcelain, but also nautilus shells, corals, ivory, rhinoceros horns, ostrich eggs and much else besides. Review | The Met is the world’s greatest art museum. Three under-the-radar shows confirm it — again. 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z I may even break out my grandmother's porcelain plates. On this farm, there’s no Thanksgiving 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z Upstairs in the grim prison hospital, he has filled the cells' grungy porcelain toilets, sinks and bathtubs with mounds of little white porcelain flowers. '@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz' a powerful meditation on repression 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z The chef’s breakfast trunk is genuinely designed to travel, its porcelain plates held upright with leather straps and its cutlery in drawers. A Parisian Chef Dreams of a Special Hotel Breakfast Service 2012-04-23T11:00:40Z Astor developed her passion for Asian jade and porcelain and lacquered furniture as a child due to her father's military career that took the family all over the world. Contents of Brooke Astor's homes going to auction 2012-09-23T21:16:04Z Then Perry must take the twins to school because he so badly brutalizes Celeste that she is unable to remove herself from the master bedroom’s bright white porcelain tiles. Nicole Kidman faces “the monster” in the finale of HBO’s “Big Little Lies” 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Each is a globular ebullience of broken porcelain vessels, the shards joined with epoxy and the seams traced in gold leaf. East Asian sculptors reshape tradition 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z Through him, the American acquired a vast number of imperial porcelains. Reclaiming the Badges of Cultural Identity 2010-10-22T11:30:00Z If you read it, you'll never look at porcelain the same way again. 'The White Road' is an obsessive journey into the world of porcelain 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Mango madness pervaded the culture: Images of the yellow fruit appeared in posters, on porcelain and in textile designs. When Mango Mania Was Revolutionary 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z Plus, I think they’ll think you’re pretty crazy and back off if this person is coming at them with a broken piece of porcelain. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: ‘The cat broke the toilet tank lid’ and other likely stories 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z Late summer is the time when I must deal with the porcelain berry. How America’s frenzy for Japanese plants brought beauties — and a mega-weed 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z The show will also include drawings, sculptures and porcelains. Inside Art: A Loan Extends Museums’ Global Reach 2014-02-13T21:01:43Z Sèvres porcelains, painted with exotic birds, seem too exquisite for actual use. Cultured Traveler: Hunting for Looted Art in Paris 2010-11-20T06:30:00Z Designed for the adventurous consumer, the company’s new product, Pictart, is a porcelain stoneware collection with the bold appearance of banana leaf stems. 7 trends found at a major Italian tile show 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Gilded mirror frames are studded with porcelain fragments, while graceful bronze chandeliers bear lyrical flourishes of plaster, rock crystal, and white marble. See William P. Sullivan's Beautiful Designs 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z 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. ‘The Sassoons’: A Family Romance at Global Scale 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Walter McConnell renders birds and plants in porcelain, using the sort of kitschy figurines he employs to construct large, complex monuments. In the galleries: Washington from on high, as it was and as it was meant to be 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z I am constantly pulling porcelain berry off the fence around my community garden, which abuts national parkland heaving with vegetative marauders. Like a virus, weeds seize any opportunity to spread — and this summer, they’re ferocious 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z It was initially thought to be stoneware but later determined to be porcelain that was probably made in Philadelphia. American ‘Holy Grail’ Punch Bowl to Go on Display 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z There, against the stark white of the porcelain, were clumps of short red hair. We Needed More Significant Others 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z Brush-painted renderings of blueberries, birch trees, lighthouses and sailboats adorned the porcelain works. Think Freeport is all outlets? Made in Maine shops will show you otherwise. 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z The South Carolina artist has a special affinity for the animals, whose patterned shells resemble hard-edge yet delicate porcelain. Review | In the galleries: ‘Sea of Change’ exhibition sets the voyage on a different course 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z A miniature porcelain evergreen is proclaimed a Nostalgic Christmas tree “revamped with new technology” and available in green or white — with the non-nostalgic price of $79.99. The absurd allure of the Sharper Image, the uncle-gift emporium for uncles you barely know 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Wood-grain porcelain tiles offer the warmth of hardwood without the upkeep. No budget for beams or brick walls or granite counters in your home? Go faux. 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z No matter how you fill it, this ovenproof French oval porcelain dish adds whimsy to utility. Dominique Ansel Moves From Cronuts to Dessert Tastings 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z True to their pudgy porcelain identities, the lovers, who first meet by accident while in disguise are not typically sleek Disney sweethearts. | 'Gnomeo and Juliet': A Kitsch-and-Tell Movie of Garden Variety Love 2011-02-11T01:37:31Z An art museum and public garden space featuring French and American impressionist paintings and German and English porcelain. Graceland aside, there’s a King-size array of attractions in Memphis 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z All of Mum's little porcelain ladies had gone, except for one, the pieces of which my father placed carefully by the bellows beside the fire. George Craig: Shuttered Windows 2011-07-22T22:02:01Z Q: You tell the story of “Jimmy,” a porcelain doll in a Kentucky museum who keeps scaring the staff, partially because he keeps moving around on his own. Q&A: Author Harriet Baskas, chronicler of museum oddities 2014-01-31T21:19:28Z During a visit early last year, a long display table in the front room showcased an eccentric arrangement of objects that included bottles of schnapps, hand-knit striped knee-high cashmere socks and delicate porcelain flowers. Foraging: Store Review: Andreas Murkudis in Berlin 2010-12-31T19:55:00Z “It’s the perfect complement to our collection,” said Ms. Poulet, who said that Henry Clay Frick never acquired Meissen porcelain. Inside Art: MoMa PS 1 Plans 9/11 Exhibition 2011-07-28T20:48:32Z There are few things spookier than opening your front door and finding a porcelain doll that looks like your young daughter, but that’s exactly what happened to eight families in a Southern California town. Person Who Left Dolls on Little Girls' Porches Not a Huge Creep After All 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Moon jars were made by joining two wheel-thrown porcelain hemispheres, lip to lip. LACMA's lovely show on Korea in a time of transformation 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Ideas for new products, from trainer bras to driftwood-inspired porcelain ware, come thick and fast. Tonight's TV highlights: Britain's Next Big Thing 2011-04-12T07:00:04Z That trade — silver for silk and porcelain — built the city of Manila and put the name of a Spanish king on an Asian nation: the Philippines. '1493': How Columbus' discovery changed the world 2011-09-29T19:55:04Z Lots of porcelain and interesting colors — bright yellows.” | Out with F.S.C. Barber, in with Fellow Barber 2013-07-25T22:33:10Z A titanium post eventually had to be implanted into my bone and a counterfeit tooth, a crown of porcelain, pushed in. The Dentist Who Treated My Divorce 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Necessity inspired — and the word is apt — a line of knockoff porcelain, too. Review: ‘Made in the Americas’ Explores Globalism From Way, Way Back 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z The Art Nouveau and Art Deco Museum is worth visiting for the building alone, a modernista palace of stained-glass windows, never mind the creepy collection of 300 porcelain dolls. 10 smaller European Capitals of Culture you may not have heard of 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Kjærsgaard, who is now the speaker in Denmark’s parliament, gave an interview last year in which she described, in detail, the importance of making her office hyggelig – with family photos, lamps, porcelain and knick-knacks. The hygge conspiracy | Charlotte Higgins 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Weiwei's handmade porcelain sunflower seeds broke the previous record for his works. Weiwei, Lichtenstein works break records at NY 2012-05-10T00:07:07Z Suddenly, the shards of porcelain had a bigger audience than the hundreds of intact paintings and sculptures that surrounded them. Art Fair Visitor Breaks a Jeff Koons Balloon Dog Sculpture 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z One female artist is making gold-trimmed porcelain hash pipes that look more sculptural than functional. 'I don't think I look like a stoner': the women changing the face of the cannabis industry 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z The handmade porcelain is still a traditional fabrication, from the secret formula of kaolin and quartz to the casting, washing, baking, polishing, painting and gilding. Nymphenburg Porcelain Gets a Fresh New Look 2010-04-26T14:01:00Z Wessel designed the breakfast room, a charming corner she filled with a 19th-century wooden farm table and chairs, art, and a display of tiny porcelain farm animals tied together with almost invisible fishing line. How show houses keep designing visitors on the straight and narrow 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Visitors will see canine stamps, artistic prints with sausage dog motifs, handmade puppets and porcelain figurines. 'The world needs a sausage dog museum', so German owners provide one 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z The list of objects elevated to unprecedented heights of artistry includes Japanese lacquer boxes, Fabergé eggs, French porcelain, Roentgen furniture, bejeweled objects from the treasuries of this cathedral or that court. Art Review: ‘Jewels by JAR,’ Joel Arthur Rosenthal, at the Met Museum 2013-12-26T22:08:45Z She paints doll-like women with pouty mouths and perfect porcelain skin; yet their eyes are empty, hinting at the superficiality of their beauty and the artist’s reflection on her generation’s obsession with appearance and consumption. 2010-01-05T06:10:00Z From the best-selling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes, Edmund de Waal charts the history of porcelain in The White Road. Books in 2015: A look-ahead 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z His cat Selima, spotting a goldfish in a Chinese porcelain tub, reached down to catch it and drowned. Exhibition Review: ?In the Company of Animals? Opens at the Morgan Library 2012-03-02T21:47:25Z This isn’t Mozart as a museum piece, porcelain to be handled with delicacy. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z So she sculpted her “porcelain” vessels from laser-cut wood, each standing about 30 inches tall. A mini-golf course at Olympic Sculpture Park? These artists are designing one 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z If the geographic origins of the pieces are varied, so are their elements, which include silver, porcelain, glass, wood and recovered materials. In Transit Blog: Christmas Cribs Celebrated at Rome Exhibition 2011-11-21T11:00:38Z He found a gray porcelain Italian tile that resembles polished concrete and laid it down instead. In the Desert With Jackrabbits and Clint Eastwood 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z According to Mr. Nichetto, the gold-plated steel chair legs echo the decorative rim details on porcelain plates. New Ways to Take a Seat at Milan Design Week 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z And porcelain and a freshly drawn bath and consommé. Brooklyn, Can You Hear Her? Barbra Streisand Still Sounds Amazing. 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z The women who posed nude for him would furtively take the side entrance to the back staircase and wait for him beside a black stone fireplace embedded with Chinese porcelain scenes of courtesans. Antiques: Leighton House Museum Reopens in London With New D?cor 2010-04-08T21:51:00Z Now crushed stones and colored porcelain mix with the brand’s hallmark BBs, sand, and sparkly black silica, creating layers of color and texture that look something like Sweet Tarts merged with rock candy. Dazzle Your Garden with Sparkling Furnishings by Fernando Mastrangelo 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z France’s most accomplished craftsmen were commissioned to make sumptuous furniture, tapestries, carpets, cabinets, crystal and porcelain. Special Report: Decorative Arts: The Revival of the Artisan 2011-10-27T11:30:10Z It’s a social enterprise that rescues porcelain, books, gadgets of all sorts, clothing, textiles, kitchen utensils, furniture and much more from going to the tip. A local’s guide to Stockholm: 10 top tips 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Blue and white porcelain was definitely one of the flavors of the day. Auctions: Seesaw Bidding Early in the Season 2011-09-09T11:00:09Z In school, his feedback from professors were “really bad,” he said, but during a trip to the library he saw in a book a picture of a Worcester pot, made by England’s royal porcelain manufacturer. His First Art Was Graffiti. Now His Pottery Is in the Met. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Ceramics like this lot were traded worldwide in the 17th century, with millions of Chinese and Japanese porcelains entering the European market. A Pair of Chinese Ceramic Hares Is on the Block 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z “That was one of the reasons why I decided to research porcelain, to get the colors that I want to use in jewelry.” This Porcelain Is Tougher Than It Looks 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z To sandblast one that size and apply new white porcelain, he would charge about $1,450. How to replace enamel on a cast-iron sink “The making of porcelain in Philadelphia in particular was a revolutionary act,” he said. American ‘Holy Grail’ Punch Bowl to Go on Display 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z When porcelain came up, bidders seemed possessed with a rage to buy, even when the spurious character of the wares was made clear in the catalog. Auctions: Seesaw Bidding Early in the Season 2011-09-09T11:00:09Z Chris Antemann puts a bawdy spin on rococo porcelain figurines of the 18th century with "A Slip Betwixt the Cup and the Lip" and two other elaborate pieces. Some smashing ceramics are on view at Bellevue Arts Museum's "Clay Throwdown!" 2010-09-02T19:20:00Z How to get the look of blue-and-white porcelain into your fall/winter line? Review: In ‘China: Through the Looking Glass,’ Eastern Culture Meets Western Fashion 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z He spoke up after a phalanx of servers lifted five porcelain salvers in unison, releasing a floccus of steam from each dish. The TV Watch: On Bloomberg TV?s ?Titans at the Table? Tycoons Eat and Dish 2012-02-27T23:40:15Z While researching his dissertation at the National Archives in Paris, he received a carton packed with documents about an uprising by porcelain workers in Limoges in the spring of 1848. John Merriman, Eminent Historian of France, Is Dead at 75 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z There is the fine white line of the unglazed porcelain, the glaze stopping in a perfectly controlled way. Lucie Rie: Modernist Potter by Emmanuel Cooper 2012-05-25T21:54:01Z If this puts you in the mood for souvenir shopping, Supermama next door has porcelain sets featuring the city’s unmistakable skyline, designed in Singapore and made in Kyushu, Japan. 36 Hours in Singapore 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Infused with a touch of humor, his evocative playing brought each doll to life, from a sprightly porcelain to a frenetic clown to a mischievous witch and a rag doll with a bittersweet lament. Pianist Sam Haywood displays lyrical sensitivity in a recital at the Kennedy Center In 2009, designer Benoît-Pierre Emery created an interpretation of the intricate floor pattern in gold for the Mosaïque au 24 collection of porcelain tableware, bringing the beauty of the mosaic to the home. Hermès Launches Its Mosaïque au 24 Collection of Tableware in Glittering Platinum 2013-12-11T05:00:00Z These include the vines English ivy, oriental bittersweet, porcelain berry, wintercreeper, Asian wisterias and honeysuckles. How to nurture your small piece of the Earth, without harming the rest of it 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Rather than wolf them down, slathered in gravy, they demand that you contemplate them like exquisite porcelain. How to eat: chips 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Elite military officers formed the Society in 1783, and they commissioned custom porcelain from artisans in China. Antiques: Scrimshaw in New Book From New Bedford Whaling Museum 2013-01-10T21:54:56Z She spent three years in Jingdezhen, known as a capital of porcelain thanks to a 1,700-year history of producing pottery. Keiko Fukazawa's ceramics are 'Made in China' by way of Japan and the U.S. 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z The company's catalog proclaimed that white porcelain was the embodiment of the German soul. 'The White Road' is an obsessive journey into the world of porcelain 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Martin is known to have earned his living as a painter on porcelain and glass. Art Review: John Martin's Greatness and High Kitsch 2011-09-30T11:30:09Z Some cleaning pads don’t scratch and are fine to use on porcelain or stoneware. How to remove moss from an asphalt roof 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Canny Frederick the Great, he wrote, made these incomers buy royal china from his porcelain factory if they wanted “to take up residence, open a business, or marry”. Weimar memories: walking Berlin … in a flâneur's footsteps 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z There is also a bit of a game attached to eating the cake, which is baked with a porcelain charm inside. Spare Times for Jan. 8-14 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z She left home at 14 for art school near Limoges, the porcelain capital, and found her way to Marseille, where she began studying fashion. A Designer With a Low Profile Is Ready to Raise It Up 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z No one said, “Have fun in the café when your son pulls the entire Valentine display to the floor, leaving a pile of red porcelain shards — literal broken hearts — shattered at the cashier’s feet.” My NYC parenting nightmare: It’s either hell or Larry David 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z Instead of porcelain, they chose to work with black terra cotta, a material more common for sculpture, which they had used at school. Are You an Astier Person? 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Traditional serving vessels, for instance, were thrown over in favor of broad porcelain plates and bowls upon which sauces and ingredients were arrayed as meticulously as brushstrokes on a Kandinsky. A Korean Tasting Menu With Verve and Polish, at Jua 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z The camera has always loved her striking, porcelain features: those formidable cheekbones and wide-set blue eyes. Capsule reviews: `Knight and Day' and others 2010-06-24T20:48:00Z An upcoming exhibition titled “From Sèvres to Fifth Avenue” at the Frick Collection explores his acquisition of Sèvres porcelains in the last years of his life. Discover Henry Clay Frick’s Sèvres Porcelain Collection 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z Past the main salon lies a small dining room where Napoleon and his threadbare court attended formal dinners served on fine Sèvres porcelain by butlers in livery, as elegant silverware glittered in the candlelight. Footsteps: St. Helena, ?Cursed Rock? of Napoleon?s Exile 2012-03-30T18:21:46Z The impetus for the newest project is a promised gift of more than 100 pieces of rare porcelains from an anonymous collector. Inside Art: Frick Seeks to Enclose Portico, Creating New Gallery 2010-06-10T21:38:00Z Her fireplace mantle is adorned with porcelain figurines of cats and dogs and several candelabras. TS Madison Steals the Spotlight 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z The project, designed by the New York architectural firm Davis Brody Bond Aedas, was prompted by a promised gift of more than 100 pieces of rare porcelains from an anonymous collector. Frick Gets Go Ahead For New Gallery 2010-06-22T21:13:00Z Somewhere in between, he fit in blouses and dresses in a print of a steer's skull that sounds scary but was truly lovely in the spirit of a Ming dynasty porcelain pattern. Gurung at NY Fashion Week: From edgy to elegant 2012-02-11T21:31:15Z The hibachi grill table, the porcelain sumo wrestlers with their little paper umbrellas. The Magnificent 10: Restaurants That Changed How We Eat 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Edye has a particular affinity for Koons, a popular, if polarizing, artist whose works include a shiny porcelain sculpture of Michael Jackson and his chimp, Bubbles. How Edye Broad's 'natural eye' drew her billionaire husband into the art world 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z Whether that's a wooden board, a porcelain plate, or even an entire kitchen island, you can work with any surface you want. A 1-2-3 guide to building the perfect charcuterie board 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z To western eyes, her vases, based on Chinese porcelain made between the 16th and 20th century, are quintessentially Chinese. Artist of the week 131: Meekyoung Shin 2011-03-25T12:48:11Z Parsons has hummingbird-like feet, huge elevation and mercurial leaps, and Brach's porcelain demeanor belies a fierce technique, her back a study in suppleness, her turns precise. In-your-face Tchaikovsky from American Contemporary Ballet 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z Being a Southern girl, I particularly swooned over the china pantry stocked with Sèvres porcelain hand-painted with birds of different species, all inspired by the illustrations of explorers and naturalists of the day. Jewelry Designer Temple St. Clair Carr's Guide to Paris 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Glaze is applied sparingly, contrasting pointedly with expanses of matte stoneware in terra-cotta red or porcelain white. Art in Review: Norbert Prangenberg: ‘The Last Works’ 2014-03-27T20:28:23Z Our celebrity award givers, Joseph Mawle and the delicate porcelain perfection that is young starlet Holliday Grainger, stood next to us. Oscars 2012: Nominees' diary 2012-02-20T10:40:23Z Speaking of baths, the tub might be on its last porcelain legs. The Getaway: Inside the Evolving Hotel Bathroom 2013-12-10T19:36:36Z Migratory Duck While decluttering my house, I accidentally donated a porcelain duck to charity, which my college-age stepson was keeping for his mother. 2010-01-23T02:36:00Z Bar Keepers Friend is an extremely popular cookware cleaner that you can use on pretty much most pans — stainless steel, porcelain, enamel, copper, and more. Don't toss that burnt pan! Here's how to clean it 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Through Simmons & Company Auctioneers, the two men are parting with metal, soapstone, glass and porcelain irons that sprout scrollwork handles and fuel tanks for gas, alcohol and charcoal. Antiques: Edna St. Vincent Millay?s Home; the Apollo; Irons Galore 2010-07-29T20:44:00Z Images of it turned up everywhere — on porcelain vases, cloisonné bowls, silk robes and jade sculptures. Chinese Landscapes at the Met: If Those Mountains Could Talk 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Among them are a Montmartre artist’s garret based on Modigliani’s studio and a 19th-century London curiosity shop overflowing with doll-size porcelain and silver. Celebrating Helena Rubinstein at the Jewish Museum 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z “Islamic Blue” refers to the fact that this style of porcelain, although associated with China, was dependent on cobalt from the Islamic world. Review | In the galleries: Exhibits explore the many meanings of blue 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z “I like the idea of something structured that is superlight,” said the designer, referring to white dresses, their skirts like upturned tea cups, and inspired, as was the rest of the collection, by porcelain. Fashion Review: Chanel's Kinetic Look at a New World 2013-07-02T17:11:40Z After a few minutes he called the store assistant over and pointed to an unexceptional, flat-backed, white porcelain urinal. Putting modern art on the map 2012-08-24T20:35:17Z Lumping together under a single denomination the infinitely diverse artistic expressions of the “Islamic World” is as inept as talking about Christian art from 8th-century Carolingian manuscripts to 18th-century French porcelain. Auctions: Century-Old Vandalism of Islamic Art, and Its Price 2011-04-15T12:00:27Z One is small and delicate, full of decorative porcelain. A look inside Sandringham House, site of the royals’ annual holiday retreat 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Each of these things pretends to be something else: porcelain is disguised as wood, wood as leather bookbindings. Art Review: Art Imitates Movies in a Series of Scenes 2010-12-23T22:22:15Z The pages of 1950s National Geographic are given new life in a line of porcelain dessert plates from Mottahedeh. Mottahedeh Teams with National Geographic on a Set of Fierce Dessert Plates 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z It was common for royals and nobles to present one another with lavish gifts of porcelain, which was, at that time, considered more valuable than silver and bronze and often called “white gold.” Hermitage Amsterdam's 'Dining With the Tsars' Examines Heyday of Russian Royalty 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Not since Marcel Duchamp submitted a porcelain urinal for exhibition at the 1917 Society of Independent Artists show has a plumbing fixture been so ennobled. Gold Toilet 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Her porcelain skin, green-hazel eyes, coltish jaw and cheekbones, and cascading red hair photographed superbly from any angle. Maureen O’Hara, smoldering Irish beauty of movie fame, dies at 95 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z The sculpted and draped clothes, creating streamlined day wear, brought more than just elaborate decoration to this Giles Deacon show, set in an Italian porcelain factory. 2010-01-16T06:48:00Z A porcelain goblet for Passover was painted in the 1880s by Vilmos Fischer, a Jewish aristocrat whose family owned Hungary’s renowned Herend ceramics factory. Showcasing Jewish Antiques and Their Stories 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Marino is working other displays: one this week in Dresden to mark the 300th anniversary of Meissen porcelain; another in April at London’s Wallace Collection of his own collection of 16th- and 17th-century bronzes. An Art Menagerie Touched With Magic 2010-03-29T15:27:00Z Then there’s Joel Cooper’s masks, which look like finely chiseled medieval faces that one might expect from a porcelain, metallic or papier-mâché mask. Art by the Numbers 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z But a third gallery devoted to the Clarks’ collection of European porcelain is radiantly beautiful. Clark Art Institute Reopens With New and Renovated Space 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z He observes, describes, talks with people, recounts their stories, visits museums and archives, and sometimes acquires pieces of porcelain. 'The White Road' is an obsessive journey into the world of porcelain 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Further evidence of the intensifying Chinese obsession with imperial symbols of the Qianlong age was provided by porcelain. Reclaiming the Badges of Cultural Identity 2010-10-22T11:30:00Z The most striking of these moments involves a young girl named María who confided in Emma, pulling a tiny porcelain doll from a pouch and claiming that it was her brother. An Artist’s Childhood, Etched in Trauma and Abandonment 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z “It doesn’t get much more ‘Downton’ than this,” said Harriet, as a butler poured tea into porcelain cups and refreshed our tiered tray with delicate finger sandwiches, fruit tarts and cream cakes. Cultured Traveler : Echoes of ‘Downton Abbey’ on Vacation in England 2014-04-15T20:58:55Z Laurel Lukaszewski also emulates fabric with clay, notably with a trio of porcelain bands modeled on obis, the sashes worn with kimonos. In the galleries: You’ll definitely use your head at ‘Interface,’ at G Fine Art 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z The room numbers are not painted on the doors but mounted on little porcelain signs. The dying world of “Grand Budapest Hotel” 2014-03-07T23:59:00Z Stone likes porcelain and ceramic tile for floors because they offer a lot of color and pattern options. Six design tricks to make laundry feel like less of a chore 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Each element — painted on silk or porcelain, carved into lacquer or jade — carries a specific metaphysical meaning and psychic weight. Art Review: ‘Chinese Gardens,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2012-08-16T21:59:52Z Ms. Mueller, an independent scholar and collector of Chinese export porcelain in Indianapolis, has been gathering data about how some 18th-century china acquired markings falsely suggesting that it belonged to American Revolutionary War heroes. Antiques: Scrimshaw in New Book From New Bedford Whaling Museum 2013-01-10T21:54:56Z The religion section features gilt bronze sculptures and hanging silk scroll panels of Buddhas in ink, color and gold; porcelain statues of Bodhisattvas; and silk tapestries with religious imagery. NYC Exhibit Unveils Rich Treasures of Yuan Dynasty 2010-09-27T09:51:00Z The museum has replicated an entire Stickley dining room; white porcelain plates and linen table scarves contrast with oak cabinets and leather chairs. Antiques: A Fantasy Movie House Is Saved From Extinction 2010-09-16T21:00:00Z They filed a claim with a panel commissioned by the Culture Ministry, which in 1999 returned 16 Klimt drawings of Adele Bloch-Bauer and 19 sets of porcelain, but none of the Klimt paintings. Maria V. Altmann, Pursuer of Family Klimts, Dies at 94 2011-02-09T05:24:09Z There is a chill in the air and the gazebo in the town’s central square is decorated with pumpkins, porcelain pigs and cockerels that nestle among haystacks and horns of plenty. 'It's sunny and safe': why Gilmore Girls is perfect comfort TV 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z The gallery where these works reside has been turned into an 18th-century “porcelain room,” with the pieces grouped together by color. Holiday Museum Guide: Where to See Art This Season 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z The deal was accepted, the porcelain became known as the Dragoon Vases, and the battalion took the Meissen cipher — two crossed swords — as its banner. 'The White Road' is an obsessive journey into the world of porcelain 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z The new space offers more room for the treasures: Bibles, china, shoes, porcelain dolls, church ephemera, photos of Civil War soldiers, documents of clubs and societies. Weeksville Black History Site Hobbled by Dip in Donations 2013-12-20T23:11:21Z His family told me stories of porcelain elves, neighborhood kids, junior high talent shows. Meeting his family, disowned by my own 2014-01-08T23:59:00Z They also own very expensive real estate and have exquisite taste in interior design — one gas fireplace is equipped with “artfully made porcelain logs.” Lestat returns: In her new novel, Anne Rice revives a much-loved vampire The Shirt is displayed near a series of homages, like a photographic re-enactment featuring Benedict Cumberbatch, and as a parallel Shakespearean example, a series of 18th-century porcelains showing famous actors as Richard III. ‘Will & Jane’: Two Literary Superheroes, United in Pop Culture 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z More hopeful that there is in fact a shred of meaning to be gleaned from the stars or a magic crystal ball or the residue stuck to the walls of a tiny porcelain coffee cup. A Turkish coffee reader predicted my pregnancy (and Andy Cohen’s skin cancer) 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z Looks: These days, manufacturers digitally photograph and then print natural stone patterns onto porcelain tiles. Hardwood vs. engineered flooring? Granite vs. quartz? The answer might surprise you. 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z My favorite is the mansion’s kitchen, with its gleaming modern steel cabinets and appliances, delicate porcelain cups and the dumbwaiter used to transport it all to Mrs. Post’s dinner parties. The Museums Times Reporters Like to Visit on Their Days Off 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z A young girl sits down on Ai Weiwei's porcelain sunflower seeds in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. Sunflower, people power 2010-10-11T16:41:00Z I watched a small girl in a tulle tutu try to scale a vitrine of Meissen porcelain statuettes by Johann Joachim Kändler, particularly enchanted with one group, a fox accompanying a singer on harpsichord. Is Disney the Met’s Fairy Godmother? 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z I was a binge-drinker in college and spent many a late night “praying to the porcelain god” — johnuflecting, you could call it. Style Invitational Week 1294: As the word turns — a neologism contest 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z There are doodles of body parts, and screen projections that include close-ups of spattered porcelain. Review: ‘Here I Sit, Broken Hearted,’ Answering Nature’s Call With Bathroom Humor 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z When an earthquake rocked the region in August 2011, the staff’s first concern was with the porcelains in the Peacock Room. Earthquake? No damage. But what about loud music? 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z They finally found them in a gallery of 18th-century art with two English landscape paintings, French armchairs and a Sèvres porcelain sculpture. Anti-Trump Protest Pushed Its Way Into a Minneapolis Museum 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Look for porcelain vases, paper or fabric flowers, a small plaster cupid, and other items that turn up in his famous still lifes. The magic of France’s Aix-en-Provence 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z Reeling from several miscarriages, Eden discovers a porcelain doll’s head in the cellar of her home. In ‘The Mapmaker’s Children,’ John Brown’s daughter gets her due 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Visitors to the Victoria and Albert Museum’s white porcelain plaza in London commonly walk past a wall that says “The Sackler Courtyard.” Gifts Tied to Opioid Sales Invite a Question: Should Museums Vet Donors? 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z And for centuries the Manila galleons sailed to Acapulco in New Spain, “bringing silk and porcelain from China in return for silver, and bringing in immigrants as well,” he said. A Vegas Wedding for China and Mexico, Under the Chef Jos? Andr?s 2010-10-13T04:15:00Z And they electrified all of it; you can still find their resistors — little white porcelain toadstools — scattered on the forest floor. In France, Vestiges of the Great War’s Bloody End 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Third Reich eagle symbols clutch Olympic rings on glass ashtrays, white porcelain bells and steel torches made by the industrial giant Krupp. Antiques: Olympics Memorabilia in London Auctions and Museums 2012-07-12T22:41:56Z For example, we did an Asian porcelain sale that traditionally is marketed to collectors of Asia porcelain, but this time we showed it in situ, meaning in a domestic environment. Christie's Ramps Up Online-Only Sales 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z A contrasting floor of black vinyl tiles grounds the pale wood composition, and a series of raw porcelain sconces by ceramist Shio Kusaka adds a warm glow to the setting. Step Inside Los Angeles’s Hot New Restaurant 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z They used to be considered less desirable than Chinese porcelain and jade but now can cost more than $1 million apiece. Antiques: The Case for a 17th-Century Female British Architect 2012-03-08T23:47:52Z Chalamet, with his long, pale limbs and shock of dark hair, is the proprietor of an aesthetic that many have compared to a sickly Victorian child, or a bewitched porcelain doll. Timothée Chalamet and the return of the Cool Jew 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z More than 2,000 pieces, including porcelain, from the collection of Mr. Rockefeller and his wife, Peggy, are to be auctioned next year for charity at Christie’s. Selling Old Masters Now Requires Learning New Tricks 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z As germ theory became accepted at the end of the 19th century, the bathroom became a hospital room, with fixtures of porcelain and lined with tile or marble. Why the modern bathroom is a wasteful, unhealthy design 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z Sarmiento instead goes to farmers markets, where he knows the growers and gets a robust-looking porcelain or rocambole type for the garden. A visit with the garlic guru yields advice for harvesting homegrown bulbs 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z “We teasingly say we’re at the mercy of the porcelain gods.” Antiques: Works by Haviland Ceramics and Robert R. Taylor 2012-01-12T21:49:49Z He decided to use the classical form of a Ming Dynasty blue-and-white patterned porcelain vessel as the nest, adding a hole to serve as an entrance on one side, because of its level of sophistication. Artists devise wildlife-friendly works for San Francisco's Presidio 2010-06-03T20:50:00Z She was like a beautiful doll with pale, porcelain skin, big eyes and blond hair. Charlotte Rampling: ‘I cannot explain it but I have never visited the cemetery where my sister is buried’ 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Hummels are fired at a relatively low temperature, midway between terra cotta and earthenware and far lower than porcelain, he said. How to get a neon clock repaired 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z They picked at crustless cucumber sandwiches and French pastries, attended to by three butlers who refilled porcelain teacups and refreshed petits fours. China’s Butler Boom 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Meant to highlight a connection with the museum’s rich porcelain holdings, each disk features Mr. Penone’s fingerprint in the center, surrounded by delicate concentric lines. At Museums, a Mix of Old and New 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z But not at Nymphenburg, the porcelain manufactory of the Bavarian crown. Nymphenburg Porcelain Gets a Fresh New Look 2010-04-26T14:01:00Z In buncheong’s later stages some artists eliminated imagery by dipping pieces into the slip to create uniform surfaces resembling porcelain or by using wide brushes to produce wavy, striated patterns. Art Review: Vessels of Clay, Centuries Old, That Speak to Modernity 2011-04-07T20:56:46Z They work in studios from Sunnyside to Crown Heights to Paris, in paint, porcelain and pixels. Distinct Prisms in an Ever-Shifting Kaleidoscope 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Ben Brantley, in his mixed review, said Mr. Auburn “pulled out all the teeth” in the play and left a “fixed, prosthetic porcelain smile.” ArtsBeat: Curtain Down, Heads Up: Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Theater? 2011-01-31T12:00:14Z An honest-to-God rural working man is unlikely to start his day with “a selection of historic grooming items beautifully made from silver, pewter, ivory, ebony, leather, or fine porcelain.” Review | Hipster style at its most annoying 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z “We do things like chromeplate the drip pans so they are new, and sandblast the grates and apply new porcelain so they are new.” Don’t give up on your vintage gas stove. It can be fixed. 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Glaze compositions and firing techniques were refined to produce light-colored hues, and new enamel colors were introduced for porcelain painting. A Pair of Chinese Ceramic Hares Is on the Block 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Across the gallery floor, a small flock of porcelain birds sprout decidedly unhealthy-looking bronze tumours. Rachel Goodyear, Andy Parker, Meschac Gaba: the week's art shows - in pictures 2013-06-28T12:00:00Z The cloakrooms on Park Row were built in 1904 and still contain the original porcelain and tiling. Toilets brush up to become art gallery 2011-03-09T12:31:10Z How these unseen layers create the familiar properties of glass, porcelain and stainless steel is deftly explained. Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik – review 2013-07-03T11:15:01Z Also in the hospital wing is “Blossom,” which consists of porcelain flower sculptures snugly fit into existing amenities like bathtubs and sinks. @Large: Inside Ai Weiwei's Unprecedented Exhibit on Alcatraz 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z The toilet consisted of some porcelain surrounding a hole. Elephants, My Brother and Me 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Working in porcelain takes patience as well as skill. The European Obsession with Porcelain 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Even so, she looks model-fresh and exquisite, like a porcelain doll that could easily break. A double standard in enforcing prostitution laws: “It’s economically advantageous to have [high-end sex work] going on” 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z Is it OK to pocket one of Ai Weiwei's porcelain sunflower seeds, 100m of which are piled, like a kind of inland beach, in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall? Is it OK to steal a Turbine Hall seed? 2010-10-12T21:01:00Z Delicacy is central to Armitano Domingo’s creative approach — not just in his playing, but also in the new collection of handmade porcelain plates and cups that he recently launched under the name Botticelli Ceramics. Maker to Know: A Ceramist Creating Insect-Adorned Plates 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z They were often backed by starched lace or wire-wrapped greenery and held in a decorative vaselike “posy holder” made from silver, brass, porcelain, ivory or pearl. Revisiting the Posy in Our Current Moment 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z The airbrushing was so over-the-top, the eyes so blue, the lips so rouged, that he looked like a porcelain doll. The Life’s Work of Photography’s Great Trickster, and Ukraine’s Greatest Artist 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Some of this year’s other designs include a moodier, more muted setting, which uses Royal Copenhagen’s new Black Fluted porcelain in matte black. Royal Copenhagen’s Annual Show of Magical Tablescapes 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Despite the restaurant’s name honoring the mighty bivalve and its interior decorated with vintage porcelain oyster plates, lobster rolls remain Mink’s top seller. In demand and pricier than ever, lobster rolls have become the cupcakes of the sea 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z She pointed to Marcel Duchamp, whose “Fountain” of 1917, a mass-produced porcelain urinal, was an example of art’s commenting on the social change of his era, the industrial age. Museums Chart a Response to Political Upheaval 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z A porcelain berry vine, ripped to the ground, grows back three feet in a week. Surveying the garden after a soggy summer 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Subjects include bombers, starry nights, expanses of waves but also the glaze on a fragment of porcelain seen up close that evokes finely veined skin or cracked earth. 18 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z The porcelain tub and tile are original to the home. What to do about a cold bathroom that chills the whole house? 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z Kate Manx, Mr. Stevens’s wife at the time, plays the porcelain beauty Ann; her expertise at portraying vulnerability is made more poignant by the knowledge that she took her own life in 1964. Review: Once Lost, ‘Private Property’ Is a Genuine Rediscovery 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Striking sculptural compositions made from tires, wood, porcelain dogs, suitcases and shoelaces are laid out precisely along the room’s long tables where scholars might study. Processing the Pandemic at the Manchester International Festival 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z As Janet Gleeson recounts in her eminently readable popular history “The Arcanum: The Extraordinary True Story,” the importing of Chinese porcelain to Europe in the mid-16th century started a fad akin to tulip mania. Art Review: A Jewel Box for Translucent Treasures 2011-12-15T22:59:09Z The exhibition’s spirit of austerity is easily apparent in the ceramics, mostly white porcelain vases in a basic vocabulary of spherical and ovoid volumes. Art Review: Refined Restraint in ‘Treasures from Korea,’ in Philadelphia 2014-03-20T12:00:02Z What greeted the eye was a heap of small porcelain pebbles “executed in 2010,” the catalog specified, adding that it was “from an edition of 10 unique variants.” Auctions: London Auctions Highlight Insatiable Appetite for Contemporary Art 2011-02-18T17:00:06Z But when a creepy stranger with a porcelain hand turns up one day in the bookshop, the past threatens to unravel this present happiness. The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón – review 2012-06-28T07:00:01Z Showroom has a nice little porcelain sculpture of a bear cleaning house, made in the Amstel tradition by the Dutch artist Joke Schole. Art Review: Pope Chairs and Carpets at NADA NYC Art Fair 2014-05-08T21:51:09Z Some years ago, at a private Christmas party in a Park Avenue penthouse, Andolora accidentally shoved a porcelain Buddha with his foot during a spirited rendition of “Deck the Halls.” After 40 Years of Fa-La-Laing, a New York Caroler Hands In His Bells 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z “As soon as I found out how crazy and convoluted and interesting porcelain history was, I was just fully hooked,” said Mr. Domingo, who makes plates, trays and cups that often incorporate botanical motifs. It’s a Fine Time for Fine China 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Sircar works in stoneware and porcelain, which she shapes into tiles and rectangular flasks. In the galleries: Paintings that are both ephemeral and vivid 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Included in the auction will be English, French and Continental furniture and decorative pieces, paintings, prints, drawings, porcelain, crystal, silver, memorabilia, clothing and accessories. You Can Buy Oprah's Household Items for as Little as $50 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z For animal lovers, there is a menagerie of porcelain figurines: a toad, a stag, an ox, rabbits, puppies and more than a dozen cranes. A Collection of Many ‘Things’ Comes on the Auction Market 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Lenox also sells dinnerware made of porcelain and stoneware, but those products are imported. How to deal with mineral deposits on an aluminum shower door 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z He tossed sand at them, clicked porcelain fingers, forced them into a sleep from which they couldn’t awaken. A Monster in the Mold of Hannibal Lecter Haunts ‘The Sandman’ 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z Mom became petrified of using the bathroom, of encountering more roundworms in their porcelain grave as the medication killed them. The parasites inside my mother were both real and spiritual 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z In the offices are a collection of reception desk bells, and porcelain dogs mounted bottom-down on a wall. 'This building gives me so many ideas': creatives on the spaces that inspire them 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z The collection of David and Peggy Rockefeller, a vast trove of paintings, furniture, porcelain and other treasures, was on the block over three days, with Wednesday offering some of the relative bargains. They Came for a Piece of the Rockefeller Mystique. They Mostly Came Up Empty. 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Discovered in China sometime during the first millennium, porcelain is a glassy, cool-white ceramic valued for its watertight hardness and ability to be molded into forms of extraordinary delicacy. Art Review: A Jewel Box for Translucent Treasures 2011-12-15T22:59:09Z A photo taken that night shows a tall, handsome girl with porcelain skin, her satin gown slithering into a puddle around her invisible feet, as if she were a marble statue forever immobilized. Leonora Carrington, the surrealist storytelling genius you've never heard of 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z For small birds, she often uses a porcelain display called an Aves diorama, designed for her by the popular ceramist Heather Rosenman. She left her social media job to take up taxidermy. Now her work is on TV. 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z The only revelation they offer is the immaculate perfection of their gleaming surfaces, from porcelain to stainless steel. When Jeff Koons painted Michel Jackson white 2013-06-10T16:18:00Z His knife moves across the thick porcelain plate, making a thud sound as food hits a plastic bag. A Lifetime of Reading Taught Min Jin Lee How to Write About Her Immigrant World 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z In the end, they settled on a studio of porcelain experts in China who received regular WhatsApp videos of Ms. Demeulemeester painting. Ann Demeulemeester Doesn’t Miss Fashion at All. She Has Other Plans. 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z An exhibition featuring a pearl-and-garnet tiara, silver, porcelain, paintings, textiles, jewelry, manuscripts and furniture. At museums this fall: Art and science, civilization and extinction In that same session, another porcelain vase drove Chinese bidders nuts. Reclaiming the Badges of Cultural Identity 2010-10-22T11:30:00Z According to Royal Worcester, a centuries-old British porcelain producer famed for its egg coddlers, there's no record of who exactly invented the technique. An underrated (and simple!) technique for fancy-feeling eggs 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z She has also donated some of her family’s rare porcelain from Shanghai and an heirloom wok to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, where a replica of Julia Child’s kitchen is on display. Grace Young Is the Recipient of the Annual Julia Child Award 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z I know the candle, with its porcelain holder designed to look like coils of sauce-covered noodles, is meant to make a statement; it’s sold as “comfort food meets Pop art,” after all. Spaghetti-scented candle? Why “savory” candles mess with our minds 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z Sprigs of such plants rendered in unglazed porcelain are mounted in a wide band across one wall of the Fowler gallery. Pacific Standard Time exhibition at the Fowler traces the power of sacred plants in Brazil 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z For “Regarding Rodin,” Ms. Kneebone chose 15 works from the museum’s permanent collection to show alongside her own exquisitely created objects, which were sculptured in porcelain and fired in a kiln in her studio. Art Review: Works by Rachel Kneebone at the Brooklyn Museum 2012-04-05T22:06:34Z The vast collection of trophy paintings, porcelain and antique furniture amassed by Mr. Rockefeller with his wife, Peggy, are estimated by Christie’s to sell for at least $650 million. An Estate Sale With the Rockefeller Touch 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z The Dackelmuseum opened in early April in Passau, Germany, a gallery of dachshund memorabilia with a collection of more than 4,500 paintings, books, statues and porcelain wares devoted to Bavaria’s celebrated wiener dog. That Shaggy Mutt? At Dog Museums, Our Drooling Companions Are the Stars 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z First made in China, porcelain’s earliest form dates back to the Tang dynasty. It’s a Fine Time for Fine China 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z For Discipline, which is featured in the show, she wanted to create the sense of nesting and comfort by using glazed porcelain wrapped in string and then dipped in plaster. How Hurricane Katrina Influenced This Artist’s Work 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z One of his signature looks is crisp blue and white, with lots of breezy fabrics featuring stripes, gingham and prints, plus blue-and-white porcelains. Jill Biden names a decorator for her East Wing office 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z Visitors are invited to walk across the surface of the seeds, which were made of porcelain by thousands of workers in China. Chinese artist Ai Weiwei unveils new London show 2010-10-11T18:03:00Z He also shows an affinity for ceramics, turning leaf forms into standalone pieces of glazed porcelain. Review | In the galleries: Finding the unknown within what is known 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z He carefully wraps it in gold leaf, then gently returns the amulet to the depths of the porcelain throne. Matthew Barney's 'River of Fundament'? Well, it's certainly big 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z The concern was that Tate staff might risk respiratory problems from long-term exposure to the porcelain dust being raised by visitors' exuberant engagement with the ceramic "beach". Sunflower Seeds raise a quintessence of dust in the Turbine Hall 2010-10-19T21:40:00Z If not real firewood, why not a faux bois wood print on a porcelain cup? Fall decorating: Cozy interior design for the colder months I stuck it to the metal marker, then reached into my jacket pocket for a small porcelain Jiminy Cricket statue, placing it at the marker’s base. 2010-01-15T21:13:00Z Artificial reefs, which are considered beneficial if constructed of materials that won’t harm the environment and placed for minimal impact on their surroundings, range from porcelain anchors to former naval vessels. Culture and Conservation Beneath the Sea 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z And porcelain is about as strong as granite but requires no annual sealing. Hardwood vs. engineered flooring? Granite vs. quartz? The answer might surprise you. 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z With more than 50 art and antiques dealers participating, the labyrinth of white tents will boast everything from retro rattan and blue-and-white porcelain to Deco furniture and one-of-a-kind jewels. The East Hampton Historical Society Hosts Annual Antiques Show This Weekend 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Works made in wood, jade, porcelain, bamboo and silk, along with photographs and videos. Around the world with Ai Weiwei: Where to get your fix of the artist's work 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z The second part of the estate, McCain’s extensive collection of porcelain and decorative items, will be auctioned off later this spring. The eclectic estate of Roberta McCain — John McCain’s mother — went up for auction. So did a piece of Old Washington. 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z As the tub overflows, some power lifts her body a few feet into the air, then smashes her skull against the porcelain sink. Fear Loves Company: Don’t Watch These New Horror Movies Alone 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z When she asked for some vegetables to nibble on, I fastidiously julienned a cucumber into thin slices, layering them atop one another in a semicircle on a florid porcelain plate. What Steve Jobs Taught Me About Being a Son and a Father 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z All the shoes — give or take some sculpted porcelain sandals — were made for walking proud and tall, without fear or fetish. Special Report: Fashion: Camping It Up in Old Shanghai 2010-10-06T17:35:00Z Through an open bedroom door I spied a porcelain rooster perched on a dresser, and a framed member’s certificate from the United Gamefowl Breeders Association. Baby chimpanzee killed by adult at L. A. Zoo 2012-06-27T13:33:00Z Masters sometimes supplied slaves with luxuries, like French horns and porcelain teacups. Antiques: The Everyday Lives of American Slaves 2011-01-06T22:27:39Z Ron Fuchs II, curator of the Reeves ceramics collection at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., is researching 1920s fakes of 18th-century Chinese porcelain painted with patriotic American patterns like eagles and flags. A Love for Vintage Dolls That Never Grows Old 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z A simple brass rod, nearly eight feet tall, on a round marble base, with nine porcelain enamel shades climbing up in a delicate spiral, like the first buds of springtime. Scavenger: A Lamp Too Good to Be True 2011-03-11T18:39:11Z The book is also partly a travelogue, as De Waal visits places around the world where porcelain is made, traded and appreciated. 'The White Road' is an obsessive journey into the world of porcelain 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z The galleries, leased from Playboy Enterprises, contain the company’s longtime stock of realist and folk-art paintings and antiques like Chinese export porcelain, Victorian pressed glass and 1810s tables with eagle feet. Antiques: A Sotheby?s Catalog With Some Juicy Details 2011-02-24T22:29:12Z Brown trout, brook trout, rainbow trout, and more are depicted on this dishwasher- and microwave-safe Czech porcelain. redcabinpottery.com or 1-877-540-2643 Buy Dad a nice bottle of whiskey from Kentucky distilleries. Father's Day Gift Guide 2010-06-14T17:36:00Z Muller places the piece of fish in the belly of a deep porcelain dish. Eric Ripert: the Buddhist Michelin star chef who changed my life 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z But after a dentist replaced all his teeth with porcelain dentures, hampering his ability to play the sax and changing his sound completely, Scott spiraled. A Hallowed London Jazz Club Comes to Life Onscreen 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z “Asia One” transports viewers to a high-tech warehouse near Shanghai, staffed by only two workers — a smiling porcelain robot nearby scans their every move — who oversee the automated distribution of hundreds of thousands of packages. An Artist Warns of a Robot-Ruled Future. Or Is It Our Present? Let’s Discuss. 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z With its skippily exuberant Harlequin and friends, and a Columbine as cutely winsome as a porcelain figurine, the work's sugar content is now way too high for a modern audience. Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo 2010-09-26T21:30:00Z Dotting the space are classical torsos, animal figurines and cartoonishly large children’s shoes made of porcelain and stoneware — elements she will later combine in her complex, hybrid pieces. The Artist Testing the Limits of Ceramics 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z She also draws on the centuries-old tradition of porcelain figurines while studiously ignoring all boundaries, especially those dividing insider and outsider; art and craft; and high, low and kitsch. Art in Review: Kathy Ruttenberg: ‘Nature of the Beast’ 2013-05-02T19:33:50Z A vintage chandelier bathed a menagerie of porcelain pigs in a soft glow. The Design Team Roman & Williams Gets Around 2012-12-05T22:44:46Z Along with a display of intricate white porcelain vases, the exhibition includes three works that are groups of hand-made porcelain platters and bowls arranged on a steel armature. | Ann Agee 2010-11-19T22:45:00Z Beside us, a gray-haired Chinese man smiles as a server deposits a plate of soy-glazed rice noodles, a bamboo steamer of dim sum and a white porcelain mug in front of him. Want fantastic Chinese food in North America? Head to Vancouver. 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z SEOUL, South Korea — Richard Gere is visiting a Buddhist temple in Seoul where he received gifts of prayer beads, ceremonial clothing and porcelain incense burners. Richard Gere visits Buddhist temple in South Korea 2011-06-21T10:15:09Z Here you can see — or partially see — the artist Kris Lemsalu lying on a water bed under a giant porcelain turtle shell and surrounded by crates of eggs and smaller ceramic turtles. Frieze Art Fair at Randalls Island Park Offers a Bit of Everything 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z A Russian King At our first rehearsal we all sat around a table with quaint porcelain teacups in our hands. Road Back to Russia, Paved With a Play 2011-08-21T03:30:33Z Then I started buying slides made of different materials—chrome, brass, glass, porcelain—in different sizes. Fast cars, bikes and guitars with women's names 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z J. James Auctioneers & Appraisers in Plymouth, Mass., offered around 100 Russian posters, and pieces of Soviet porcelain were dispersed through Lempertz auction house in Berlin. A Surge of Interest in East-Bloc Mementos 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z A large mirrored vanity with a shallow porcelain sink is a prominent feature, but there isn’t much counter space; a wood tray and shelf are situated underneath for towels and toiletries. Hotel Review: London Edition in London 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z They caused him to reflect on cultural differences, and the result is his sandblasted porcelain plates with gold PVD coating that display ridiculously inept English phrases. Bellevue Arts exhibit puts plates at the head of the table 2014-03-06T20:17:12Z Dixon is famous for moving around his treasure trove of accessories: overscaled apothecary jars, Venetian brocade pillows, flea market candlesticks, lusterware porcelain and French garden orbs. On the hunt for affordable treasures at West Elm 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Antique porcelains — cabbages, asparagus, artichokes — were artfully arranged on practically every surface. Bunny Mellon’s Keen Eye Is a Boon to Sotheby’s 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Six years ago, Edmund de Waal, whose beautiful porcelain pots, glazed in greys, creams and pale greens, have transformed the world of British ceramics, gave a paper at Harvard on orientalism and Japanese pottery. Edmund de Waal 2011-02-12T11:38:27Z He calls himself a potter, but he is also an artist of international reputation, specializing in large-scale installations and interventions, often in major museums, sometimes featuring rooms filled with white porcelain pieces. 'The White Road' is an obsessive journey into the world of porcelain 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z This idea is perhaps most explicit in the first work he completed for the show, a triptych of large canvases that riff on the color and illustration style of Delft porcelain. 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