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SLI P WA RE   Dining and Related Wares 
              Dishes and Plates 
Horticultural Designs 
531. DISH 
Probably Staffordshire 
1680-1710 
H.: 2 3/4" (7 cm); 
Diam.: 111/2" (29.2 cm) 
BODY CLAY: Fine-grained pale buff. 
LEAD GLAZE: Overall on interior and 
most of exterior, excluding part of 
footrim and area within it. 
SHAPE: Press-molded. Twenty-four 
lobed. Tapering footrim with flat edge. 
Two holes pierced in footrim before 
firing, 
SLIP GROUND: Cream-colored. 
Overall, excluding large patch within 
footrim. 
DECORATION: Trailed and jeweled 
Floral reserve. Lobing outlined. 
Geometric border. 
his dish, like multilobed models made in greater numbers in English 
(nos. D103, 1)104) and Continental tin-glazed earthenware, ultimately looks
to 
metalwork prototypes for its shape. Combed ornament is somewhat more 
common than are trailed patterns on the interiors of the slipware dishes,
some of which also include an inner row of ribbing., In contrast with trailed
examples decorated after the dish was pressed over a mold, combed slip pat-
terns on dishes of this type seem to have been created on the flat clay slabs
before shaping. 
   No dish with ornament matching that on the example shown here has yet
been identified. In its border layout, however, the Longridge dish resembles
an orange-bodied example with similar trailed and jeweled lobe outlines,
a 
central relief grotesque mask, and an outer border of small relief masks
of 
roughly triangular formnat.i Somewhat similar masks may have worn away on
the Longridge dish's mold. Two orange-ground, maskless dishes resemble in
shape the one shown here and have trailed cream and brown outlines. The 
central reserve of one is marbled and that of the other is combed in an open
trellislike pattern within an inner ring of ribbing. 
1, For combed dishes, see Home, 
Collection, pt. 15, no. 412; Earle, 
Collection, pl. 18A; Manchester. Greg 
Collection, no. 21, 
2. Stoke-on-Trent collection. For a combed 
version, see the Glaisher collection. 
3. Hughes, Slipware, pl. 5; Home, 
Collection, pt. 15, no. 413. 
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