as in pottery
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Five sketches by New York caricaturist Al Hirschfeld are also among the lots, as are pre-Colombian pottery pieces, turn-of-the century weather vanes, and a Byzantine processional cross.—
Francesca Aton for ArtNews,
Robb Report,
21 May 2025 -
Barnett’s own journey threads through the pages, particularly in her essay linking pre-emancipation pottery traditions to liberation.—
Byron Armstrong,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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The plates are made in Portugal and are constructed with long-lasting earthenware (a type of ceramic) that is both microwave and dishwasher safe for easy use and cleanup.—
Alicia Geigel,
Southern Living,
3 Apr. 2025
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Grapes are fermented—often with skin, seeds, stems, and all—in large earthenware vessels, known as qvevri, that are buried underground.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
27 Apr. 2025
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The first piece visitors saw was a striking work by the artist Anina Major, which reinterpreted the weaving techniques passed down by generations of enslaved people of West African origin in the Bahamas into glazed stoneware.—
Liam Hess,
Vogue,
30 May 2025
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The new restaurant is 6,000 square feet, as opposed to the usual 3,000 square feet, and uses natural stoneware and organic textures like travertine, Taj Mahal quartzite and Venetian plaster.—
Connie Ogle,
Miami Herald,
13 May 2025
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“Ceramics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ceramics. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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