a. [f. L. Thēriclē-us adj., a. Gr. Θηρίκλει-ος made by Thericles, a famous Corinthian potter: see -AN.] Of Thericles; of the form or kind made by Thericles, as a cup.
1692. R. L’Estrange, Josephus, Antiq., IX. i. (1733), 278. Vessels that Nebuchadnezzar carry’d away from the Temple at Jerusalem to be sent back and restor’d; that is to say … fifty golden Vessels all thericlean Cups, and four hundred silver ones.
1703. Rowe, Ulyss., Prol. 13. They sent her Billets doux, and presents many Of ancient Tea and Thericlean China.
[1857. Birch, Anc. Pottery (1858), II. 107. The Thericleios was a kind of cup invented by Thericles, a Corinthian potter, the contemporary of Aristophanes.]
