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DELFTWARE Dining and Related Wares 
               Other 
D195. DRAINER or STRAINER 
Drainers or Strainers 
Probably Liverpool 
1750-1770 
H.: 7/8" (2.2 cm); 
L.: 12" (30.5 cm); 
W.: 8 1/2" (21.6 cm) 
BODY CLAY: Fine-grained buff, 
TIN GLAZE: Bluish white. Overall. 
SHAPE: Molded and pierced. Smoothly 
concave reverse. 
Although this and other drainers or strainers were intended to be fitted
into the large, low dishes that caught the juices of the fish (or other food)
served 
upon them, the drainers apparently were purchased separately. Several other
shallowly domed inserts in various shapes also depict species of fish; most
are 
painted in blue and white.' (For another dish associated with and depicting
fish, 
see no. D206.) One circular dish with an attached low-domed strainer or drainer
has small depictions of fish as a border.' 
DECORATION: Painted. Fish, 
1. Archer, V&A, no. F60 (circular); Horne, 
Collection, pt. 5, no. 114 (oval); Fisher, St. Louis 
Collection, p. 629, fig. 7 (circular); Sotheby's (L), 
Lipski sale (3), March 1, 1983, lot 409 (circular); 
Britton, Bristol, no. 9.26 (chamfered rectangle), 
and no. 9.25, for a different type of strainer 
depicting fish. 
2. Austin, Delft, no. 400. 
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