ˈpearlware
Also pearl ware.
White-coloured pottery ware, orig. manufactured by Josiah Wedgwood.
| 1922 W. Burton J. Wedgwood & his Pottery iv. 37 This ‘pearl’ ware, as Wedgwood made it, differed somewhat in composition from his cream ware, for it contained a larger proportion of ground flint and china-stone. 1948 W. B. Honey Wedgwood Ware ii. 10 The ‘pearl-ware’ was chiefly used for tea-services made in rivalry with porcelain. 1953 W. Mankowitz Wedgwood ii. 44 The peak production period for pearlware is the first quarter of the nineteenth century. 1961 Times 8 Apr. 11/6 Cream-coloured earthenware and the harder, whiter pearlware. 1969 Canad. Antiques Collector Feb. 14/2 Round about the year 1800 this model must have been turned out by the dozen, sometimes, as in this instance, in pearlware, [etc.]. 1975 Daily Tel. 5 Feb. 12/5 A Leeds pearlware figure of a horse, 17 ins high, was bought anonymously for {pstlg}1,350 at Sotheby's yesterday. |