Definition of "chinaware"

According to the Japanese writer, the two first-named mountains and hills, besides several other places up and down Hizen, is made Japanese porcelain or chinaware out of a whitish fat clay, which is found there in great plenty.

1881, George Ashdown Audsley, Keramic Art of Japan‎, page 148

So I turned my attention to setting up my new home, arranging the furniture and displaying Rita's sparkling glass and chinaware on the sideboard.

1996, Rina De'firenze, Mystery of the Mona Lisa

This book includes a systematic examination of chinawares in over a thousand documented estates from the seaport communities of Salem, Boston, Newport, New York, and Philadelphia from 1690 to 1770.

2011, Caroline Frank, Objectifying China, Imagining America: Chinese Commodities in Early America‎