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DELFTWARE Dining and Related Wares 
              Dishes and Plates 
Oriental Landscapes, Gardens, and Figures 
D101. PLATE 
Probably Brislington 
1675-1690 
H.: 1" (2.5 cm); 
W. (between flat sides): 10 3/8" (26.3 cm) 
BODY CLAY: Fine-grained buff. 
TIN GLAZE: Green-bluish white, 
SHAPE: Molded, Shape G but 
octagonal with circular well and bot- 
tom and more convex exterior wall. 
DECORATION: Painted. Chinese figure 
in landscape. Border composed of 
simple outlines. 
Ex coll.: J. P Kassebaum. 
he decoration on this and the following dishes derives from Eastern 
prototypes and is of a sort used at potteries in London, Brislington, and
Bristol. 
Although it is difficult to differentiate between these factories on the
basis of 
style, the greenish tint of the glaze and schematic ornament on the plate
sup- 
port an association with Brislington. Also probably from Brislington is a
1683 
dated punch bowl that shares with the Longridge plate similar clusters of
trian- 
gular leaves, vertical trees with tiny comma-shaped foliage, pancakelike
cloud 
layering near the cliffs, and dotted filler ornament (see also nos. D276,
D280).' 
A 1672 dated caudle cup shares the clusters of triangular leaves, asterisklike
leaves, and oval-cluster leaves with the Longridge dish. Dates on octagonal
plates, many of them depicting Chinese figures in landscapes, are restricted
to 
a range of the very late 1670s to the very early 1690s (see nos. D80, D107).'
1. Rackharn, Glaisher, vol. 2, no. 1339. 
2. Lipski and Archer, Dated Delftware, no. 782 
(cup); for octagonal plates, nos. 143A-143C, 
159 160, 162, 165, 183, 188--189. 
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