Crossword clues for celadon
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Celadon \Cel"a*don\, n. [F.] A pale sea-green color; also, porcelain or fine pottery of this tint.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pale grayish-green," 1768, from French Céladon, name of a character in the romance of "l'Astrée" by Honoré d'Urfé (1610); an insipidly sentimental lover who wore bright green clothes, he is named in turn after Greek Keladon, a character in Ovid's "Metamorphoses," whose name is said to mean "sounding with din or clamor." The mineral celadonite (1868) is so called for its color.
Wiktionary
a. Of a pale green colour tinted with gray. n. 1 A pale green colour, possibly tinted with gray. 2 A pale green Chinese glaze. 3 A ceramic ware with a pale green glaze.
Wikipedia
Celadon is a term for ceramics denoting both wares glazed in the jade green celadon color, also known as greenware (the term specialists tend to use) and a type of transparent glaze, often with small cracks, that was first used on greenware, but later used on other porcelains. Celadon originated in China, and notable kilns such as the Longquan kiln in Zhejiang province are renowned for their celadon works. Celadon production later spread to other regions in Asia, such as Japan, Korea and Thailand. Finer pieces are in porcelain, but both the color and the glaze can be produced in earthenware.
For many centuries, celadon wares were the most highly regarded by the Chinese Imperial court, before being replaced in fashion by painted wares, especially the new blue and white porcelain, under the Yuan dynasty. Celadon continued to be produced in China at a lower level, often with a conscious sense of reviving older styles. In Korea the celadons produced under the Goryeo Dynasty (918–1392) are regarded as the classic wares of Korean porcelain.
The celadon colour is classically produced by firing a glaze containing a little iron oxide at a high temperature in a reducing kiln. The materials must be refined, as other chemicals can alter the color completely. Too little iron oxide causes a blue colour, too much olive and finally black; the right amount is between 0.75% and 2.5%.
Celadon may refer to:
- Celadon, in Chinese pottery, a family of glazes, and also wares in jade-like green colours
- Celadon (color), a pale, sea-green pigment
- Celadon Trucking, a trucking company based in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- Céladon, a character in L'Astrée by Honoré d'Urfé
- Celadon, mythology, was killed by Amykos
- The Celadon, a river in Ancient Greece
- Celadon City, a fictional city in the Pokémon series of video games.
The Celadon is a mythological river of Arcadia crossed by Heracles in pursuit of the Hind of Ceryneia, according to Pindar: it is mentioned by Strabo. Pausanias names it the Celadus and states that it is a tributary of the Alpheus.
In Homer's Iliad it is described as being under the walls of Pheia, not far from the river Iardanus, on the borders of Pylos: Ereuthalion was killed by Nestor here.
Usage examples of "celadon".
This large hut, eighteen feet wide by twenty-three feet long, yielded a fairly large quantity of coarse black and brown pottery, one badly corroded bronze bangle, and two small fragments of celadon china.
Many wights, both seelie and unseelie, danced among them garbed in robes of zaffre and celadon.
Any hag with golden eyes will always find me as affectionate as a Celadon.
It is a three-piece affair, everything quilted, long jacket, waistcoat, and trousers, which have Feet at the ends of them, all in striped silk, a double stripe of some acidick Rose upon Celadon for the Trousers and Waistcoat, and for the Jacket, whose hem touches the floor when, as now, he is seated, a single stripe of teal-blue upon the same color, which is also that of the Revers.
Maybe even one of their more populous central worlds: Celadon, Prospect, Avon, or even Earth itself.
But the simple fact was that in the thirty-seven years since that awful demonstration off Celadon, the NorCoord military had never again had to fire the weapon.
She seemed unreal in her gleaming impeccability, much like one of those Sung celadon vases that appear too flawless to have been thrown and glazed by human hands.
The strange little man with the celadon skin over by the far wall continued to stare at him.
The celadon man stood beside him: a compact, precise person, vaguely Oriental in appearance.
The room had been decorated mostly in shades of green, such as celadon, which were repeated in various upholstery fabrics and in the Aubusson carpet on the floor, some of the greens were so pale they were almost a silvery gray.
And standing proudly on the deck was a celadon green Christmas tree with poppy red garland and a yellow ocher star.
In the end, I chose two fabricsa saffron wool, fine-carded and light as a cloud, and a raw silk of pale celadon green.