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S38. PLATE 
Staffordshire 
c. 1700-1730 
H-: 13/8" (3.5 cm); 
Diam.: 9 7/8" (25.1 cm) 
BODY CLAY: Fine-grained buff with 
inclusions, 
LEAD GLAZE: Overall on interior. 
SHAPE: Press-molded. Rim serrated by 
impressing with small, rounded, striated 
tool. Shape J. 
DECORATION: Combed. 
Ex coils.: / . ond C Zeitr/n (no MI/S221), 
L. B. Grigsby 
his boldly patterned plate or dish is one of two similar examples that orig-
inally may have been part of a set.' The high-quality combed patterns on
the 
pieces resemble those on thistle-shaped cups (see nos. S59, S60) with dates
from 1690 to 1716.' The combing also is comparable to (if different in details
from) designs on dishes, some with circular ridges and depressions on the
inte- 
rior, excavated in Hanley at the Albion Square site.' Combed slipware dishes
rarely are dated. One unusual and comparatively thick-bodied example has
three less elegantly executed combed bands alternating with bands of parallel
slip lines, all over the relief inscription "SM/1727."' 
   Hat patches of glaze at the rim of the Longridge dish indicate that it
was 
lired face-to-face with another dish. 
1.1 "l'ggall, Burnap, no. 42. 
2. RaK /khan, (/laisher, vol. 2, pl 30A, no. 299; 
Grigsby, Slipwarei. p 71. 
3. (el/ria and Kelly, Albion Square, p. 70, 
no. 145: p1. 7:3, no. 182, p. 77, nos. 293. 295; 
/, 78. nos. 296. 298. 303, 
4. Ratkhain. Glaisher, vol. 1, no. /100 i(.ou'tesy 
/ )aITon  /X'dn). 
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