as in pottery
articles made of baked clay
collects 19th-century English stoneware, especially soup tureens
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Recent Examples of stoneware
The stoneware pieces come in two sizes and are dishwasher-, microwave-, and oven-safe up to 450 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Ali Faccenda, People.com, 30 Jan. 2025
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
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
Subscribe to Smithsonian magazine now for just $19.99 This article is a selection from the June 2025 issue of Smithsonian magazine
In 1869, Hiram founded his own stoneware business at a new site with James and Wallace, H. Wilson & Company.
—Jacoba Urist, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2025
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Ali Faccenda, People.com, 30 Jan. 2025
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
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
Subscribe to Smithsonian magazine now for just $19.99 This article is a selection from the June 2025 issue of Smithsonian magazine
In 1869, Hiram founded his own stoneware business at a new site with James and Wallace, H. Wilson & Company.
—Jacoba Urist, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stoneware
pottery
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Pictures show multiple figurines with human face shapes, along with scattered artifacts, including jugs and pottery fragments.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
23 May 2025
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From an exploding pottery shed to eco-yurts on a beach resort that Lomofsky and her team constructed truly out of nothing but a mud field, the production designer had a lot of logistics to manage in her builds.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
20 May 2025
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“Stoneware.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stoneware. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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