Literary notes about earthenware (AI summary)
The term “earthenware” has been employed in literature to evoke a sense of rusticity, domestic familiarity, and historical continuity in daily life. Authors have used it to describe everything from everyday utensils—such as coffee roasters, pots, jugs, and plates [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]—to objects with cultural or symbolic significance, like the earthenware stall in a bustling market or a chariot delivered to conquerors [7, 8, 9]. Its juxtaposition with metal or porcelain items [10, 11, 12, 13] underscores a preference for traditional, handmade craft over modern industrial production. References from ancient texts to Victorian novels showcase the adaptability of the term, highlighting its role not only in conveying practical utility but also in establishing an atmosphere steeped in cultural heritage and antiquity [14, 15].
- In 1710, the popular coffee roaster in French homes was a dish of varnished earthenware.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - Presently the food, consisting of goat’s flesh boiled, fresh milk in an earthenware pot, and boiled cobs of Indian corn, was brought by young girls.
— from She by H. Rider Haggard - A favorite device is the earthenware jug with or without the cotton sack that makes it a coffee biggin.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - It was usually an earthenware pot.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - It was simply a squat earthenware pot with an upper, movable, strainer part made of tin, after the French drip pot pattern.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - She went downstairs and returned with a white earthenware jug of water.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - “Oh, mine was old earthenware stuff—not worth a halfpenny.
— from Howards End by E. M. Forster - The Veientines, struck with fear and wonder at this event, permitted the workmen to deliver up the earthenware chariot to the Romans.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch - ‘Who would have thought you would have been so silly,’ said he, ‘as to put an earthenware stall in the corner of the market, where everybody passes?
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm - The Brazilians insist that coffee pots should on no account be made of metal, but that porcelain or earthenware is alone permissible.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - The Two Pots Two Pots had been left on the bank of a river, one of brass, and one of earthenware.
— from The Fables of Aesop by Aesop - The Two Pots A RIVER carried down in its stream two Pots, one made of earthenware and the other of brass.
— from Aesop's Fables by Aesop - Even if coffee be made in metal contrivances, the receptacles in which it stands should be made of earthenware or of glass.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - Every day the Roman Vestals fetched water from this spring to wash the temple of Vesta, carrying it in earthenware pitchers on their heads.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer - [51] στάμνος, means an earthenware jar for wine.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius
