Ewers

Cellini alludes to certain vases which had been ordered from him, saying that "they are called ewers, and they are placed upon buffets for the purpose of display." ❋ Julia De Wolf Gibbs Addison (N/A)

He was charged with loads of fine presents in yellow amber, such as ewers, basins, tables, cups, chessboards, for the ❋ John Lothrop Motley (1845)

He was charged with loads of fine presents in yellow amber, such as ewers, basins, tables, cups, chessboards, for the King and Queen, the ❋ John Lothrop Motley (1845)

“You cannot get the low Irish to wash their faces, even were you to lay before them ewers of crystal water and scented soap; you cannot get them to dress decently, although you supply them with ready-made clothes.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

There were platters, ewers, spice sets, candlesticks, containers and a Jewish menorah. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As the nobility began to express its wealth in its silver trenchers, wassail bowls, ewers, lavers, basins and other implements and tools of the table, eating became less egalitarian and the classes stratified based on their table settings. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Knives, forks, spoons, platters, ewers and basins created a custom for a more dignified setting of table, and with these new table appliances, manners improved and culinary art advanced to higher standards, the better to fit the richer and more elaborate table setting and silver service. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And there were several brass basins and ewers for water. ❋ Dj Barber (2010)

Tasatyala poured ewers of cold water over my head and burnished me with a sack full of sand, and only then was I clean enough for the bath. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

An 18th-century boar's head tureen has an asking price of €225,000; and an 18th-century pair of monkey ewers, €160,000. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Behind us stretched a mule train laden with treasures, for the king had plundered his palace of silver platters, golden ewers, hangings, robes, bales of wool from coveted breeds of mountain sheep, and casks of doublewine from his vineyards; gifts for the arkhon, Garrio said, to sweeten his disposition. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

Then the apes cleared the table and brought basins and ewers of gold, and they washed their hands in rose water; after which they set on fine sugar and nigh forty flagons, in each a different kind of wine, and they drank and took their pleasure and made merry and had a fine time. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Then he took out what he needed and set it on and poured the wine into flagons and glass ewers, whilst Shaykh Ibrahim brought them fruit and flowers and aromatic herbs. ❋ Unknown (2006)

His head was as a dome, his hands like pitchforks, his legs long as masts and his mouth big as a cave; his teeth were like large stones, his nostrils ewers, his eyes two lamps and his look was fierce and lowering. ❋ Unknown (2006)