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                                                         WROTHAM WARES 
        ultihandled drinking vessels are the ceramic shapes most often associ-
ated with Wrothamn, Kent, located southeast of London.' Although the 
l~ongridge collection also includes a very early globular puzzle jug (no.
S47), the 
most common Wrotham vessels are a type of cup typically refirred to by anti-
quarians as tygs. Typically tygs bear seventeenth- or early eighteenth-century
dates and are thrown in red to brown clay. The vessels are fitted with two
or 
more handles, which sometimes are ornamented with applied rolls or twisted
ropes of clay. Many tygs display relief ornament created by impressing applied
cream-colored clay pads with patterned or briefly inscribed stamps. Pale
slip- 
trailed and usually abstract designs also are common features. By the late
1600s trailed ornament sometimes appeared to the exclusion of relief motifs,
a trend that grew during the early 1700s. 
   For the most part beaker-shaped tygs (nos. S48-S51, puzzle tyg no. S52)
were made earlier than globular types (nos. S53, S54), and dated examples
are 
known from 1612 through the 1660s.1 An unusually late beaker-shaped exam-
ple is dated 1697, but none with eighteenth-century dates has been 
identified.' The year 1652 is the earliest date on a globular tyg.1 (See
no. S47 for 
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slowly increased in the last quarter of the century, with the greatest concen-
tration bearing dates from around 1695 to 1715. The latest date on a globular
tyg is 1739.' 
1. For an in-depth discussion of Wrotham wares, 
see Kiddell, Wrotham, art., and Grigsby, 
Slipware, pp. 22 27. 
2. Hlodgkin and Hodgkin, Dated Pottery, no. 16. 
3. Brears, History, p. 85 (right). 
4. Sotheby Parke Bernet (NY), Victor sale, 
March 10, 1978, lot 22 (now in H. Carlton 
Goldweit z collection). 
5. Rackham, Glaisher, vol. 1, no. 145. 
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