Page 210

 
DELFTWARE Dining and Related Wares 
               Other 
Porringers 
H.: 2 5/8" (6.7 cm); 
Diam. (body): 4 3/4" (12.1 cm); 
Diam. (with handle): 6" (15.2 cm) 
BODY CLAY: Fine-grained buff, 
TIN GLAZE: White with blue speck- 
ling, especially on interior. Overall, 
excluding footrim edge. 
SHAPE: Thrown. Handle molded to 
shape and pierced. Flat bottom with 
narrow-edged, V-shaped footrim. 
DECORATION: Painted. Central 
reserve inscribed "1CE/1731" with 
graduated-line and dot-cluster filler 
motifs. Borders composed of concen- 
tric circles and lobing. Handle top bears 
radiating lines. Exterior of wall bears 
two near-repeats of flowering vine 
with insect, 
Lobed rim borders and the general type of handle decorated with the radia-
ting-line patterns shown here appear to have been a popular combination on
circa 1730 delft porringers.' (For a late example of the border, see no.
D186.) The 
border also occurs on other delftware: a mug attributed to Liverpool based
on 
excavated fragments; plates (some of London shape) with initials and dates,
respectively, of 1731, 1734, and 1736, in central reserves resembling that
of the 
porringer;' and the interiors of punch bowls dated, respectively, 1724 and
1727.1 
A 1730 dated plate initialed "EE" is stylistically similar to the
porringer in its 
central reserve and (to some extent) flowers. A 1730 dated floral-patterned
jug 
inscribed "THOMAS AND ELIZABETH SHEARMAN" resembles the porringer
in 
its deep-blue-painted grassy mounds and numbering style (see also no. D302),"
and grassy elements of the same general type occur on a floral dish fragment
found at Vauxhall.1 
Published: Lipski and Archer, Dated 
Delftware, no. 1242; Grigsby, Dated Longridge 
Delftware and Slipware, pp. 883-885, pl. 16. 
Ex coils.: F. A. Crisp; E. Pitts Curtis. 
1. For otherwise differently decorated porringers,  3. Lipski and Archer,
Dated Delftware, nos. 1068 
see Britton, Bristol, no. 5.15; Austin, Delft,  (1724), 1077 (1727). 
nos. 396-398, and for a mug with the border,    4. Ibid., nos. 363 (plate),
986 dug). 
no. 98. 
                                           5. Cockell, vauxhall Cross, pl.
120. For a poly- 
2. Archer, V&A, no. C.18; Austin, Delft, no. 396; 
                                           chrome, lobed punch bowl, much
like Longridge 
Lipski and Archer, Dated Delftware, nos. 366, 
389-390, 407-409.                          no. D309 in shape, with grassy
mounds and dif- 
                                           ferent flowers with birds, see
Sotheby's (L), 
                                           Kassebaim sale (1), October 1,
1991, lot 44. 
210 The Longridge Collection 
D185. PORRINGER 
London or Liverpool 
Dated 1731