pottery 
/>"f l .J 1. Tin- ware or vessels made by pot- 
ters; baked earthenware, glazed or nn^la/r.l. 
2. A place where earthen vessels are made. 
3. The business of a potter; the manufac- 
ture of earthenware Abruzzi pottery, a naino 
given to the decorative potteries made in the province* 
of Abruzzi In Italy. The traditions of the majolica dec- 
oration lingered long in thin region, although gradually 
modified. The most important of these wares are known 
by the name of Ccateui pottery. Amfltel pottery, a 
common name for the decorative enameled pottery of 
Amsterdam, perhaps from the river Amstcl, on which 
many of the furnaces were situated, but also by confusion 
with Ainitel porctiain. Anatolian pottery. See AIM- 
talian.- Apulian pottery. See Ai/ulian Assyrian 
pottery, the potter}' found in the ruins of Assyrian an- 
tiquity. Its most Important forms are (a) architectural 
tiles and bricks, which are frequently decorated with en- 
amel of the most brilliant colors, and arranged to form 
simple or elaborate deafens, and sometimes painted with 
engobes, the bricks of each of these two kinds being fre- 
quently molded In relief; (6) cylinders, prisms, and so- 
called barrels, all intended to receive inscriptions which 
are impressed upon them ; (c) Bat tablets or tiles inscribed 
in the same way, and stored together In Immense col- 
lections, forming libraries or collections of records, ac- 
cording to their subjects; (d) vessels for various uses 
not generally rich in decoration, and for the most part of 
plaiu unglazed clay. Awata pottery. Same as Au-ala 
ware. See ware. Bendlgo pottery, pottery made by the 
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eled directly from life, and painted In close imitation of 
nature. (6) Imitations of the true I'alisiy ware, made by 
modern manufacturers, and often extremely successful, 
o as to be deceptive. Peasant pottery. See peaiant. 
pottle-bodied 
lanceolate leaves, an erect obovate- or oval-oblong capsule 
with cuculllform calyptra, and peristome either absent or 
composed of sixteen flat teeth. There are 9 North Amer- 
ican species. 
- Persian pottery, pottery made in Persia, of several PottieK (po-ti'e-e), n. ill. [NL.,< Pottia + -C*.] 
kinds, Including an extremely hard and semi-translucent A smnll trihp nf hrvaceous rnriKsps ta.kin<r its 
sort, which is probably an artificial porcelain. The ware A !es> T*** " 
' (o) a coarse brown paste name "Ota the genus Pottta. 
i-li flowei 
commonly known as Persian Is (a) 
with a white enamel, upon which , , ., 
are painted in vivid colors, and covered with a siliclous 
glaze, nd (ft) a ware of similar composition with figures In 
relief and similarly decorated. Each of these two sorts 
has sometimes a copper luster, and it is not uncommon 
for pieces otherwise alike to differ In having more or less 
luster, so that it seems that the luster is not in all cases 
an important object with the decorator. Khodian, Da- 
mascus, and Anatolian wares are often classed as Persian. 
Quimper pottery, pottery made at Qulmper, in the 
department of Finlstere, France, especially enameled 
faience made from 1650 and throughout the eighteenth 
century. The style of decoration la usually very similar 
to that of either Severs or Rouen, according to the time. 
Khodian pottery, pottery made in the Isle of Rhodes. 
This pottery is similar in decoration to Persian and Da- 
mascus ware, but is distinguished from It by a somewhat 
bolder decoration and more brilliant colors, and by the 
more frequent use of enamel color put on so thickly as to 
remain in slight relief. In material and character, this 
ware Is similar to the Persian. Also called Undue pot- 
tery, from the town of Lindus, now called Undo, a sea- 
port of the isle. Roman pottery, pottery made in the 
city of Rome since the tenth century; especially (a) a 
nature of which Is uncertain. It is of several colors, most 
commonly a grayish-white. Figures and grotesques are 
made of this ware, generally well modeled and spirited. 
Broussa pottery, pottery with a coarse and soft brown 
paste and white enamel, made at Brouasa or Bruaa in Asia 
Minor. It is generally decorated In a style similar to the 
Persian or Rhodian ware, and is used especially for wall- 
tiles. Burslem pottery, pottery made at Burslem in 
Staffordshire, of which there are many varieties, made by 
many different potters from the seventeenth century to 
the present day. Hie name is sometimes used forthe early 
work of the Wedgwoods, especially that made by Thomas 
and John Wedgwood from about 1740 to 1770, and also 
the earliest work of Josiah Wedgwood, before his removal 
to the Etruria works. Cambrian pottery. See Cam- 
Man. Castelli pottery. Sec Abruzzi pottery. Celtic 
pottery, pottery found in northern Europe in burial- 
places and occasionally among ruins, evidently pre-Ho- 
man in character, and supposed to belong to times before 
the Roman domination in Gaul, Britain, and elsewhere. 
Among the most common forms are large jars used as cin- 
eraryuras; bututensilsof manyklndsarealso found. This 
pottery is usually soft, fragile, and gray or black in color. 
Chartreuse pottery, see Chartreuse. Cognac pot- 
tery, a decorative enameled pottery made at Cognac in 
France at the beginning of the nineteenth century. It 
seems to have been generally similar to the pottery of 
Nevers. Corean, Corinthian, Cypriote, etc., pot- 
tery. See the adjectives. Damascus pottery, en- 
ameled pottery decorated with conventional flowers, 
scrolls, etc., made in various parts of the Levant, and 
known otherwise as Rhodian, Anatolian, Lindus, and 
Persian. An attempt has been made to discriminate be- 
tween these, and to class as Damascus only the finer pieces 
having a very even surface and more subdued coloring. 
Dresden pottery, a name given to the tine pottery 
made by Bottger before his discovery of porcelain. See 
Bottyer ware, under trare'J. Etruscan, Etrusco-Cam- 
panian, German pottery. See the adjectives. Faenza 
Pottery, a variety of the Italian enameled and decorated 
pottery Known as majolica, made at the town of Faenza in 
the province of Ravenna In Italy. In this place decorated 
with a white enamel, upon which' flowers, scroUs,*et<x, potting (pot'ing), H. [Verbal n. of pot 1 , r.] 
1. lunor*., the transfer of plants from beds or 
benches to flower-pots, or from one pot to an- 
other. 2. The operation of putting up cooked 
and seasoned meats in pots, where they are pre- 
served by the action of the salt, spices, etc., with 
which they are prepared, and by the exclusion 
of air. 3. In sugar-manuf., the act or operation 
of transferring raw sugar from the cryst allizing- 
pans to perforated casks. Ure, Diet., III. 942. 
4. In siuphuric-ticid manuf., the placing of pots 
containing either potassium nitrate or sodium 
nitrate and sulphuric acid in the kilns used for 
the manufacture of sulphuric acid from sul- 
phurous acid obtained from the combustion of 
sulphur in air. The decomposition of the nitrate by 
the sulphuric acid supplies nitric acid, by which the sul- 
phurous acid is oxidized Into sulphuric acid, nitrogen be- 
ing set free in the process. See suljiliuric acid, under ml- 
phimc. 
Insuyar-manuf., 
raining molasses from im- 
perfectly crystallized sugar. It has holes in the 
bottom. Into each of which is inserted an end of a crushed 
stalk of sugar-cane, which is long enough to reach to the 
top of the sugar. The molasses drains off through the po- 
rous channels which these stalks afford, leaving the pro- 
duct much drier and more perfectly crystallized. 
Bendigo Pottery Company at Epsom, near Sandhurst, in - , . . , ,-, - , 
Victoria, Australia. It has a coarse body ; but the surface varietyof Italian majolica marked as being made inRome, potting-Ca8k(y>ot'iiiK-kask),. 
Umodeledln relief with flowers, etc., in a partial imitation ' whichbutfewplecesareknown to exist ; and (6) a white- *_ f ~3F v .. t , lsp ,i for nYainintr m 
of majolica. - Bizen pottery, pottery made In the Japan- glazed earthenware, of which the factory was established VJ;, " VT /i 
ese province of MM; especially, a fine and hard pottery, by Volpato the engraver, about 1790, and was continued w>rfeetl v nrvtalli*1 siic-ar 
unglazed or having a slight vitrification of the surface the / " ls 8ons and others. Figures and groups were made of 
this ware. The color of the pieces varies from pure white 
through different shades of buff to a sort of stone-color. 
Rouen pottery, pottery made at Rouen In Normandy, 
especially that made during the seventeenth century and 
later: an enameled faience'of excellent make and fine fin- pottinger, pottenger (pot'in-jer, -en-j6r), n. 
'"NuK [Also (in def. 2) potinger, potetiger; with in- 
Ish, and decorated generally in excellent taste, accoi 
to the style of the day. The chief varieties, considered 
with regard to the decoration, are (o) that ornamented 
with scrolls and arabesques of grayish blue on a bluish- 
white ground, the ground thickly covered with the orna- 
ment, which is generally disposed with great skill, so as to 
be effective both near at hand and at a distance ; (b) that 
painted in full color with bouquets and single flowers, and 
more rarely with figure-subjects in medallions, the ground 
of this variety being generally of a purer white ; and (c) that 
in which the two preceding styles are mingled, the dark- 
blue scrolls alternating with bouquets and festoons in 
color, and the ground of the enamel bluish. There are also 
exceptional varieties, as that closely imitating Chinese 
painting on porcelain, and that in which carefully made 
white enameled pieces are decorated only by a coat of 
arms, or a device or emblem in imitation of an effective 
Italian style. Rough-cast pottery, a pottery whose sur- 
face is roughened by being dusted, before being fired, with 
pottery either in small fragments or pounded fine, or with 
small bits of dry clay. In most cases the vessel is dipped 
Iot- 
the 
in thin slip before being find. Semi-porcelain pot- 
tery, a name given to pottery of a fine body made afthe 
Royal China Works at Worcester about 1860: an excellent 
, 
serted n as in passenger, messenger, etc., for 
'pottager, < ME. potager, a pottage-maker, < 
rtage, pottage: see pottage. Cf. porringer.'] 
A pottage-maker; a cook. [Obsolete or 
archaic.] 
I haue lie cook in here kychene and the couent serued 
Meny nionthes with hem and with monkes bothe. 
Ich was the prioresse potager. 
Pirn Plowman (C\ vli. 282. 
Before that time ... the wafers, flamius, and pastry- 
meat will scarce have had the just degree of nre which 
learned pottinger* prescribe as fittest for the body. 
Scott, Monastery, xvl. 
2f . A porringer. 
Her treasure was . . . only thynges necessary to bee 
vsed, as cheyars, stooles, settels, ofyskes, potingm, pottes, 
pannes, basons, treyes, and suche other howsholde stufle 
and instrumenteg. 
Peter Martyr (tr. in Eden's First Books on America, 
led. Arber, p. -:,). 
A potenjer, or a little dish with eares. 
Baret, 1WO. (BaUiveU.) 
A house in 
ware for table-services and the like, hard, very perfectly 
vitrifled, and white throughout the paste. Sevres pot- 
tery, pottery made at Sevres near Paris either (o) at the 
National Porcelain Factory, which at different epochs has potting-house (pot'ine-hous), . 
produced a limited number of pieces of enameled faience, whinh nlanta m-o r^ttvA 
or (6) at private factories, of which there have been a num- It t. ?/ Vi > 
her at different times since about 1775. Compare Strrcn POttlllg-StiCK (pot ing-stlk), n. A flat stick 
porcelain, under porcelain^. Sicilian pottery, a name with a blunt end, used by gardeners, in potting 
given to certain varietlesof lustered ware akin to the His- plants, for compacting the earth in the space 
pano-Moresque, and with decoration frequently resem- hptwppTi th rnnta nr hnll nf flip nlnnt -, 
bling Damascus pottery. The names Sicvlo. Arabian and 
SiaUo-Moremrut nave been given to the above, and some SlO.es Oi the pot. 
attempt has been made to distinguish between these two pottle (pot'l), n. [< ME. potel, < OF. potel, a 
pottery was made at a very early epoch ; in the fifteenth alleged varieties. The pieces offered for sale in the towns little pot, dim. of pot pot: see pot 1 ] 1 A 
and sixteenth centuries several important establishments of Sicily are roughly decorated In a style similar to that liniiin 1 mpaaiirB nf twn nimrr a thn ornitonfa nf 
existed there, and the amount of work done was very great, of the Italian peninsula.- Son potter)-, common pottery u< l" la me e OI two quarts, the contei 
A distinguishing mark of the arabesque decoration of -'->-'-- "=T=nrair= ,. .. ,>, * moaanra . !> mo . m ,, n f 
Faenza is the dark-blue ground, upon which the scrolls 
are often in yellow or orange. Faenza ware is generally 
decorated at the back, especially with an imbricated pat- 
tern, or still more simply with concentric circles. Hard Unglazed pottery, earthenware made by modeling the 
pottery, a name given to all manufactures of baked clay vessel In clay, and firing it without the addition of a glaze. 
MMMM l^llliloitlt*. OVAV IfUblrCl 3, LV1JII1IUII iwillt I > - . _ . 
which Is not hard-baked. The test Is that it can be easily 8UC > measure; hence, a measure of wine or 
which the scrolls scratched with an Iron point All common flower-pots other beverage : any large tankard ; a pot. 
ware Is generally *r of soft pottery ; but there are many kinds of pottery On hrow _..,, n . . . . 
n imbricated pat- much softer, some of which can be cut with a knife.- brew me "J**"* ' '"HSP't r , 
vhich are not translucent and are hard enough not to be 
scratched by an Iron point. (This definition Includes 
stoneware, which, however, is by some writers separated 
from pottery to constitute a third class, between pottery 
and porcelain. See ttoneicare.] Inlaid pottery, a name 
given to the few varieties of decorated pottery In which 
the design is produced by cut-out patterns cither incised 
Ordinary flower-pots, terra-cotta, and common bricks are 
InsUmces of unglazed pottery. TJpchurch pottery, a 
name given to the ancient pottery found In the Upchurch 
marshes in Kent, and also to that found elsewhere which 
appears to have come from that region. In a district five 
or six miles long many ancient kilns and Immense quanti- 
ties of this pottery have been found. The ware is gray 
In the surface of the paste or cut through the enamel to orblack. more rarely brownish-red, generally thin, and wcfi 
the paste beneath, which patterns are then filled up with made. It is undoubtedly of the Roman period. Varages 
clay of a different color. The earthenware tiles of the Pottery, pottery mde at Varages, In the department of 
, yellow, and black, ' ar, France, beginning about 1780. It Is an enameled 
. 
European middle ages, Inlaid In red, y , 
are an instance of this. The most remarkable Is theOlron 
ware. See cut under biberon. Mexican, Moorish, none- 
. . , , - 
such pottery. See the qualifying words. Nuremberg 
pottery, pottery made at .Nuremberg in Bavaria, a town 
which has always been a center of the potters' art. The 
faience whose decoration imitate* that of other factories, 
especially that of Moustlers. There were many potters 
engaged In this manufacture, whose work It Is not possi- 
ble to distinguish. (See throten-ieare.) 
[wan been a center of the potters' art. The nntfoTTr Vmrlr tron SA I ;,-,,, i,,i 
most celebrated maker was Velt Hirschvogel, who was * *H? , V,, 
working In 1470, and after him his son Augnstin, until pOttery-tlSSUO (pot r-l-tish'8), n. In ceram., 
1600. The iiuiAt Important works of these and other pot- a thin paper used in transfer-printings for tak- 
ten of their Ume are tiles or panels with figures in relief. i ng the impression of the engraved plate and 
hand-modeled In fine clay, hard and thickly enameled. n , , 
and colored dmrfcgreen, yellow, or brow,,.- PallasypoV transferring it to the biscuit. See 
try. (o) Decorative pottery made by Bernard Paltssy printing. 
Shot., M. W. of W., lii. s. SO. 
He calls for a pottle of Rhenish wine. 
And dranke a health to his queene. 
Jtobin Hood and Queen Katherine (Child's Ballads, V. 313). 
Certain Canes as blgge as a mans legge, which between 
the knots contained a pottle of water, extracted from the 
dewes. Purchat, Pilgrimage, p. 877. 
Put them (ant-flies) Into a glass that will hold a quart or 
& pottle. /. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 184. 
2. A dish made by Connecticut fishermen by 
frying pork in the bottom of a kettle, then add'- 
ing water, and stewing in the water pieces of 
fresh fish. Muddle, made bv Cape Ann fisher- 
men, is the same dish with the addition of 
crackers. 3. A small wicker basket or vessel 
for holding fruit. 
Strawberry pottlet are often half cabbage leaves, a few 
tempting strawberries being displayed on the top of the 
pottle, Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, 1. 63. 
4. A children's game. [Prov. Eng.] 
fu'th'e sixteenth century and" from'hU muldTor hlsTe'- notterv-tree K>t'er-i-tre1 See caraii 1 1" 1 " ' lttle Inclination to write verses as to play at 
Igns after hi. death. 1'aiissy'i works were first at Salutes, _OS.,, StofwSs *. jwfc or whip a top 
,.r i N..,K,,ii.. .,,.1 -, ,i ,1 i..,i. * onmt a.s iMimry-oarh tret. So 
igniaiiCT nin ueaio. j-aiisvys worKS were nriil ac .samies, o <s nrno ow iu>//s>>->f /i/,^l *M 
near L Rochelle, and afterward at Paris, where the as l/Ottfry-barl. tree. Southey, To Rev. H. HU1, Oct. 14, 182*. 
greater part of his finest productions were completed, pottery-ware (pot er-i-wSr), n. Same as pot- pottle-bellied (pot'l-bel'id), o. Same as ixtt- 
The pottery by which he Is best known has a hard paste tery, 1. h,>lln- 1 
and a rich .glaze, decorated In many colors of great rich- p ttia (pot'i-a) n [NL (Ehrhart) after J F ft] I r. A' '1 rat'' 11 
. ,_. 
pieces are pierced through, leaving an openwork pat- 
tern ; tome are decorated with marbled and jaspered 
surfaces, with moldings or marks in slight relief ; and 
others are covered with lizards, serpenU, fish, etc , nu>d 
Pott, a German botanist.] A genus of brya- 
ceous mosses, the type of the tribe Pottiea. 
They are mull annual or biennial plants, growing on new- 
ly exposed soil, with entire nhovatc-ohlong or obovate- 
hellicd. 
A somethlng-pnMr-fcodkd boy. 
That knuckled at the taw. 
Trnnyiun, Will Waterproof. 
