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DELFTWARE Dining and Related Wares 
              Dishes and Plates 
Birds, Animals, and Fish 
D153. PLATE 
Bristol 
c. 1774 
H.: 11/4" (3.2 cm); Diam.: 9" (22.9 cm) 
BODY CLAY: Medium-grained buff. 
TIN GLAZE: Bluish white. 
SHAPE: Molded. Shape H. 
DECORATION: Painted. Fish. 
Border composed of trelliswork with 
fish reserves and concentric circles. 
wo dated dishes are close enough to this one to provide a fairly solid date
for it. One, from 1774, is very similar to the Longridge plate in color and
format 
but has "cracked ice" rather than trelliswork filling the area
of the border 
between the fish reserves. The dated plate is associated with Bristol based
on 
cracked-ice delftware fragments excavated there. The second dated example,
in 
manganese and red, is from 1772 and depicts a swirl of sixteen fish painted
in 
a very similar style to the Longridge fish. One unusual plate dating to the
1740s 
or 1750s is somewhat similar in the arrangement of its fish but shows them
set 
against a "powdered manganese" ground with a Cupid joining the
three fish on 
the rim.2 
I. lipski and Archer, Dated Delftware, nos. 666, 
671. Ray, Warren, pl. 54, no. 105; 1. 180. 
2. Morley -Flucher and McIlroy, 'ictorial islosory, 
p. 239, no. 16. 
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