eggshell porcelain

noun

1. a type of very thin translucent porcelain originally made in China

Example Sentences

Hammarskjold and Chou, flanked by their advisers, sat on a damask sofa, interspersing their legal arguments with sips of jasmine-scented tea, served in eggshell porcelain cups.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Eggshell" porcelain is made in this way.

From Project Gutenberg

Thus it happened that, in the sweet spring weather, while Roderick was on the stand at Epsom, watching the City and Suburban winner pursue his meteor course along the close-cropped sward, Lord Mallow was sitting at ease in a flowery fauteuil in the Queen Anne morning-room at Kensington, sipping orange-scented tea out of eggshell porcelain, and listening to Lady Mabel's dulcet accents, as she somewhat monotonously and inexpressively rehearsed "The Tragedy of a Sceptic Soul."

From Project Gutenberg

Subsequently the elder Bromley joined the Willets Manufacturing Company, of the same place, and introduced the manufacture of eggshell porcelain there, and at the present time there are no less than five or six establishments in Trenton where the same class of ware is made.

From Project Gutenberg