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noundɛlftdɛlft mass nounEnglish or Dutch tin-glazed earthenware, typically decorated by hand in blue on a white background. 〈英格兰或荷兰〉代尔夫特锡釉陶器 as modifier walls covered with delft tiles Example sentencesExamples - The delft industry grew in Southwark, and by 1640 there were some forty potters working there, many of them Dutch immigrants.
- Other British politicians are commemorated on excavated English delft punch bowls, including some found at Philipsburg Manor in New York that are inscribed ‘Pitt & Liberty.’
- Each wall is painted in a different color, such as fuchsia, delft blue or bright orange.
- The body is hand painted in polychrome enamels in the Bristol delft style and decorated with a figure of a Chinese gentleman beckoning to a distant flock of birds (estimate €1,500 - €2,000).
- Related scenes ornament archaeological fragments of two delft chamber pots and a small punch bowl from sites in New Castle, Delaware.
OriginLate 17th century (originally Delf ware): see Delft, where the pottery originated. proper noundɛlftdɛlft A town in the Netherlands, in the province of South Holland; population 96,168 (2008). The home of the painters Pieter de Hooch and Jan Vermeer, it is noted for its pottery.
OriginOriginally Delf, from Dutch delf 'ditch', still the name of the town's main canal. noundɛlftdelft English or Dutch tin-glazed earthenware, typically decorated by hand in blue on a white background. 〈英格兰或荷兰〉代尔夫特锡釉陶器 as modifier walls covered with delft tiles Example sentencesExamples - The body is hand painted in polychrome enamels in the Bristol delft style and decorated with a figure of a Chinese gentleman beckoning to a distant flock of birds (estimate €1,500 - €2,000).
- Other British politicians are commemorated on excavated English delft punch bowls, including some found at Philipsburg Manor in New York that are inscribed ‘Pitt & Liberty.’
- Related scenes ornament archaeological fragments of two delft chamber pots and a small punch bowl from sites in New Castle, Delaware.
- Each wall is painted in a different color, such as fuchsia, delft blue or bright orange.
- The delft industry grew in Southwark, and by 1640 there were some forty potters working there, many of them Dutch immigrants.
OriginLate 17th century (originally Delf ware): see Delft, where the pottery originated. proper noundɛlftdelft A town in the Netherlands, in the province of South Holland; population 96,168 (2008). The home of painters Pieter de Hooch and Jan Vermeer, it also is noted for its pottery.
OriginOriginally Delf, from Dutch delf ‘ditch’, still the name of the town's main canal. |