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DELFTWARE Dining and Related Wares 
               Dishes and Plates 
D154, D1SS. DISHES 
(D154) Possibly Southwark, London 
c. 1640 
(D1355) London or possibly Brislington 
or Bristol 
1670-1690 
(D154) H.: 2 3/4" (7 cm); 
Diam.: 14 5/8" (37.2 cm) 
(D155) H.: 2 5/8" (6.7 cm); 
Diam.: 13 1/2" (34.3 cm) 
BODY CLAY: Buff, (D154) with red- 
brown inclusions. 
TIN GLAZE: White, (D154) with fine 
brown speckling. (Both) Overall on 
interiors. 
LEAD GLAZE: (D154) Some tin content 
with greenish patches near footrim. 
(D155) Shiny, of greenish cast. (Both) 
Over pale slip. Overall on exteriors. 
SHAPE: Thrown over hump molds. 
Shape B], (D154) with sharp rim groove 
and deeply rounded rim. Each footrim 
pierced with single hole. 
DECORATION: Painted. Leaves, 
pomegranates or apples, and 
(D154) grapes. (Both) Borders composed 
of concentric circles and (DISS) dashes. 
                                            Horticulturol Designs 
he designs on the dishes shown here derive from types on fifteenth- to 
seventeenth-century Italian maiolica, particularly that exported to Northern
Europe from Venice and Montelupo.' Illustrative of circa 1600 imitations
made 
in the Netherlands (perhaps Haarlem) is the dish at lower left. It is made
in 
medium-grained reddish buff clay with inclusions, and the tin glaze is grayish
white with extensive crazing. The greenish lead glaze on the exterior is
sandy in 
texture and is applied over pale slip. The very regular, narrow dashes on
the rim, 
precise open foliage, and central leaf have numerous parallels on Dutch tin
glaze.' 
   In its painted color range, the first of the Longridge dishes shown here
(D154) resembles the Continental example at lower left. Although it can be
dif- 
ficult to differentiate between English and Netherlandish products, the 
Longridge dish is somewhat similar to dated examples from 1634, 1639, and
1640, which, based on design and clay or glaze features, have been attributed
to England.3 Fragments of comparable wasters have been found in Southwark
at Rotherhithe and Pickleherring.4 
   A later date for the second English Longridge dish (D155) and for another
and a bowl with similar ornament, is indicated by the greater simplicity
of the 
design and the use of turquoise green, prevalent in the third quarter of
the cen- 
tury, rather than a softer grass green (see no. D154). Turquoise also is
found on 
a Longridge vase-of-flowers dish with a pomegranate and leaf border (no.
D159). 
   A 1647 dated dish fragment with fruit and leaves was excavated in the
Pithay 
in Bristol and is painted in blue with the leaves a yellowish green.' A leaf
on the 
dish resembles the type on the second Longridge dish (D155), but the fragment
otherwise is dissimilar and is not a waster, precluding its use as a basis
for dat- 
ing or attribution. It does, however, open the possibility that fruit-patterned
dishes were made at Brislington and Bristol potteries. 
Netherlands. c. 1600 
1. For Montelupo exports, see Hurst, Neal, and 
van Beuningen, Pottery, pp. 12, 14. 
2. Scholten, van Drecht, nos. 49-62: Korf, 
Majolica 2, figs. 372, 405, 431. 
3. Lipski and Archer, Dated Delftware, nos. 5, 
12, 14. 
4. Britton, London, no. 29; Noal Hume, London 
and Virginia, pp. 74-75, fig. 8, no. 3. London con- 
sumer sites such as Chaucer House, Southwark 
(site CH75), and others also have yielded related 
dishes (Stephenson comments [September 19981). 
For Continental or English pomegranate dishes 
excavated at Norwich, see Jennings, Norwich, 
p. 193, fig. 84, no. 1377; p. 197, fig. 87, no. 1401. 
5. Rackham, Glaisher, vol. 2, pl 93C, no. 1413; 
Ray, Warren, no. 14. 
6. Lipski and Archer, Dated Delftware, no. 17. 
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