Delftware

Made of a light-buff clay, and known as delftware, the tiles unearthed are decorated in blue, with a conventionalized design in each corner and ❋ J. Paul Hudson (N/A)

A video piece of handwashing by Bruce Naumann sits comfortably with a splendid display of Delft tiles; and a blue-and-white chamber pot and several life-size sofa-type objects with their "backs" made from tons of processed human feces somehow go nicely with the 1661 English delftware plate deflatingly inscribed "You and I are Earth." ❋ Paul Levy (2011)

Mr. Sainsbury was passionate about English delftware pottery, and there are 80 lots in the sale all dating to the 1600s, including plates, tankards, jugs, wine bottles and vases. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The shopwindows in this district were full of delftware—a cross between pewter and bone in broad daylight—and slabs of Belgian chocolate that stood as solid and brown as the earth itself. ❋ Dominic Smith (2006)

To their left, under a dome of palms, was a marble basin, on the edges of which four large swans of delftware emitted the water from their beaks. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Striding towards the banquet-table with his flouncing companion at his side, Crockett secured a large delftware platter and commenced to fill it with a prodigious quantity of viands. ❋ Harold Schechter (1999)

I have seen a man and wife drinking coffee from one small tin pan, their china and delftware having been left in fragments to decorate the desert wayside. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Visions of blue and white delftware passed through our minds as we entered the old town, which hardly looks as though worldly automobilists would be well received. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

If you know delftware you will know from the delicate colouring of the blues and whites which is old and which is not. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

English sgraffito-ware, several incomplete earthenware holders, and parts of delftware candlesticks. ❋ J. Paul Hudson (N/A)

But in later houses the evidence of Venetian glass, Dutch and English delftware, pewter, and silver eating utensils, and other comforts and little luxuries tell of new-found security and the beginning of wealth. ❋ J. Paul Hudson (N/A)

Artworks from the Golden Age, from brilliant blue delftware to dark Vermeers. partly under renovation. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But on to the show, and someone has brought along some chipped ­English delftware plates; there's an art deco dressing table set, also chipped; some creepy old puppets; quite a nice dresser; some clothes from the 1960s; a few paintings, none particularly ­interesting or nice. ❋ Sam Wollaston (2010)

Delft is obviously famous for its delftware - the blue and white ceramics - and it was nice to see potters and ceramic artists still active within the field in the town. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I walked among the openwork towers, three tall, four smaller ones, and saw the delftware he’d plastered under a canopy and the molten glass and mother-of-pearl he’d pressed into adobe surfaces. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)