"Delf" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... contrast to Augusta Goold's dining-room, her groups of wineglasses, multiplicity of heavy-handled knives and forks, and her candles shrouded in silk. Nor was the dainty neatness less remote from the cracked delf and huddled sordidness of his ...
— Hyacinth - 1906 • George A. Birmingham
... street was devoted to hardware of all sorts, from excellent Dutch delf to the coarse pottery furnished by Staffordshire, with occasional luxuries in the form of Chelsea tea-services, or costly jars of grotesque shapes from Pekin, sent by the London china-shops. All sorts of toys and fancy articles were to be found. Painted ...
— John Deane of Nottingham - Historic Adventures by Land and Sea • W.H.G. Kingston |
