Throughout the festival, small earthenware oil lamps called diyas are placed outside of homes and temples to welcome Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth and good fortune.
Inlaid with ebony trim, tall oaken sideboards stood at both ends of this room, and sparkling on their shelves were staggered rows of earthenware, porcelain, and glass of incalculable value.
Great. We spent five hours last night at Macy's registering for gifts.Looks like I'm finally going to have that darling little earthenware asparagus dish I've always wanted.
In the window was a table, also made of boards, with an earthenware jar holding a big bunch of wild asters, two canvas chairs stood near by, and in one corner was a mattress with a Mexican blanket over it.
Others, men and women, dipped in the puddles with little mugs of mutilated earthenware, or even with handkerchiefs from women's heads, which were squeezed dry into infants' mouths.