Noun
Vessels and other utensils, ornaments, or the like, made of baked clay. See Crockery, Pottery, Stoneware, and Porcelain.
Source: Webster's dictionaryEarthenware is like people, it needs to be well treated. José Saramago
Hence, water ought by no means to be conducted in lead pipes, if we want to have it wholesome. That the taste is better when it comes from clay pipes may be proved by everyday life, for though our tables are loaded with silver vessels, yet everybody uses earthenware for the sake of purity of taste. Vitruvius
The mountain reminds one of an upturned earthenware bowl, the glazing a little bluish at times, but sometimes like gold-rimmed transparent Chinese porcelain, especially if the sun is low in the west over the sea, because then the rays play on the glacier in two directions. Halldór Laxness
Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all plate is no more than earthenware. Seneca
A destroyer can defeat thousands of earthenware makers. Yemeni Proverb
Among these are mostly anthropomorphic earthenware jars dating from c. 5 BC to 225 AD. Source: Internet