Meanings of delftware in English

A fascinating exhibition opens in Limerick's Hunt Museum next week offering collectors here a rare chance to view fine examples of Irish delftware.

Candlesticks unearthed at Jamestown include a large brass pricket holder, one made of English sgraffito-ware, several incomplete earthenware holders, and parts of delftware candlesticks.

It was mostly made at Delft, and they called it Delftware.

Finally they got to making Delftware in Staffordshire.

Ferd Janklow was on his left-theboy with the narrow Delftware hands and the deep widow's peak.

It was as though Ferd, with his grimaces at Sunlight Gardener's sermons and his pale Delftware hands, had never existed.