Example sentences for: porcelain

How can you use “porcelain” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The money earned by the plantation owners was spent on grand mansions along Mérida’s Paseo de Montejo; they were filled with the best in furniture, porcelain, and artwork.

  • The palace houses a Kunstgewerbemuseum (Arts and Crafts Museum), which is not quite as impressive as its counterpart in the Tiergarten (see page 39), but notable for a superb collection of Meissen porcelain, medieval gold jewelry, Venetian glass and 18th-century rococo furniture.

  • Recently, he dropped in on Elton John at his country house in Berkshire and was shocked by his old friend's condition: "I've never seen so much porcelain," he complained, wondering what happened to the glitterballs, strobe lights, amyl nitrate, cocaine, and louche young men.

  • The Pitti’s next-most visited gallery, the Silverware Museum (Museo degli Argenti), occupies 16 sumptuously decorated rooms to offset the Medici family’s invaluable treasures — gold, silver, jewels, beautiful 16th- and 17th-century amber and ivory, crystal, porcelain, and Baroque furniture.

  • White clay from a nearby mountain made possible the very thin, durable, translucent porcelain.


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