Trystin waited until she had served herself, then heaped several serving spoons full of the churkey and rice casserole on the wide brown stoneware plate, followed by an equally generous helping of the greenery.

"it smells wonderful," Hannah said dutifully but without enthusiasm as he set the stoneware plate of beef stew down on the table in front of her.

He held her chair for her and settled her at the table, then opened the door to the oven and pulled out two heavy stoneware plates piled with food.

He found a can opener in the tiny kitchenette and was arranging morsels of chicken on a handmade stoneware plate when he heard a knock at the door.

A more contemporary-looking piece is a stunning stoneware plate (1958) by Hamada Shoji, one of the movement's leaders, who was designated a Living National Treasure by the Japanese government.

He is represented here not only by one of his well-known gouged and torn stoneware plates, but also by another example of the Impossible Pot, a massive brute of a piece, "Big Jupiter" (1994).

Apart from the imperial eagle beaker, drinking vessels made of stoneware, pewter plates and stove tiles also carried these motifs.

Twelve minutes later, the cook was out of the kitchen with a brown stoneware plate with beige trim clutched in a towel in his hand.

The serving girl slid a brown stoneware plate in front of Justen, and a second before Altara, sitting to his right, then continued around the tables, dropping the plates quickly.

He was holding out a white stoneware plate.