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D E LF TWAR E Dini ng and Related Wares 
               Dishes and Plates 
D131. PLATE 
Liverpool 
Probably decorated in Staffordshire 
1750-1765 
H.: 1" (2.5 cm); Diam.: 8 1/2" (21.6 cm) 
BODY CLAY: Fine-grained buff. 
TIN GLAZE: Light bluish white. 
SHAPE: Molded. Shape M with 
wider rim. 
DECORATION: Painted in low- 
temperature enamels. Chinese woman 
and child on horseback in landscape 
with flowering plants and rocks, Border 
composed of flowers and scroll- 
bordered panels. 
Published: Horne, Collection, pt. 15, no. 433, 
Oriental Landscapes, Gardens, and Figures 
T   he pseudo famille rose enameled decoration on this plate and on two similar
examples is much like that more typically found on Staffordshire salt-glazed
stoneware, and it is not unlikely that, after gloss firing in Liverpool,
the blank 
plates were sent to Staffordshire for low-temperature enamel decoration.'
Simeon 
Shaw writes early in the nineteenth century that two Dutchmen set up an 
enameling shop in Staffordshire in the 1750s and soon were joined by enamel-
ers from Liverpool.' (This information also opens the possibility that at
least 
some enameling of this type could have originated from that city.) The tree
on 
the Longridge dish resembles one on another plate of this shape, which, like
the 
other delftware with ornament like that on salt-glazed stoneware, is attributable
to Liverpool partly by its shape." 
1. 1 or similar plates, see Austin, DIelft, no. 3 10 
(mistakenly stating one is at the V&A): Archer 
and Morgan, China Dishes, no. 86 (now Dolz 
collection). For other delftware with "salt-glaze- 
type" enameling, see Archer, V&A, no. 1.14 
(flower brick); Rackhamn, Glaisher, vol. 1, 
nos. 1727 1728 (bottle, chamber pot). 
2. Archer and Morgan, China I)ishes, no. 86. See 
also Garner and Archer, Delftware, col. pl. iH; for 
enameled salt-glaze, Horne, Collection, pt. 15, 
no. 434; Mountford, Salt-Glazed Stoneware, 
nos. 191, 198, 200-201, 207. 
3. Archer, V&A, nos. B.145, B.22. 
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