porcelainlike

Master of Beauty The figures, precisely rendered, have a porcelainlike quality.

The products made there became ever more refined and soon included porcelainlike whiteware and creamware decorated with elaborate transfer prints.

He was inordinately skilled at the potter's wheel, capable of achieving a porcelainlike thinness with humbler clays.

Sulphide weights incorporate medallions or portraits, made of a porcelainlike substance, that usually portray famous figures like Napoleon or the Pope.

Serna and Florenda carried in more delicate plates than Anna had seen, almost porcelainlike white, with only a fringe of the blue Brill affected.

The austere lines of his body, neck and head follow the same tilt as an elegant porcelainlike figure in a Fifth Avenue store window on the opposite page.

With her porcelainlike skin and curly hair, and wearing a pearl choker, tight lacy bodice and tulle skirt, the bride looked like a classic 19th-century beauty.

The porcelainlike finish, which comes in 100 solid colors and 15 with granite texture, also hides chips, scratches, rust and small holes (right, pink before and white after).

Ricki Arno, who owns Rosie's Creations, makes finely sculptured toppers out of edible sugar dough that dries to porcelainlike hardness.

For this new group of consumers, Bron-Shoe and Senti-metal offer a porcelainlike finish, baked onto shoes several times over, like a ceramic finish, to create the appearance of fine china.

Wedgwood perfected this vitreous, porcelainlike stoneware, best known as jasperware, in the late 1770's, and its most familiar white-on-blue version is exemplified here by the Wedgwood Pegasus Vase.

Kaolin, a fine clay, is added to the ball clay; a feldspar and quartz glaze produces a white, porcelainlike finish on which the design is hand-painted, and the piece is then fired a third time.

This young German artist is known for subtle architectural interventions; in her 1994 Projects show at the Museum of Modern Art, she polished painting-sized squares of wall throughout the building to a porcelainlike high gloss.

Braun, who creates fantastical, Gaudíesque structures, outlined the basics: slicing the cakes, building the tiers and draping the fondant - a sugar paste rolled out like dough that covers the cake with a porcelainlike seal.

Mark Wypyski, a glass specialist who runs the scanning electron microscope at the museum, took a tiny porcelainlike sample from a green part of the pendant and bombarded it with electrons, causing it to emit X-rays characteristic of the elements in it.

Then, just at that time, a new style appears which combines grace and strength, drama and subtlety: the technique consists of lush, loose brush strokes whose freedom and almost abstract quality seem to announce the Impressionists and form a marked contrast to Boucher's almost porcelainlike surfaces.

Mr. Tinterow writes in the show's introductory wall text that 19th-century French artists, seeing Spanish art through a modern lens, progressively shifted from "idealism to realism, from Italy to Spain, from Renaissance to Baroque, from carefully finished porcelainlike surfaces to the sketch aesthetic of Impressionism."