his salt is one of six known examples in English delftware; based on slight

 
differences in sizes, some of them may have been made in different molds.
All 
six salts bear painted shields of the City of London at the narrow ends,
leaving 
little doubt as to their place of origin. Unlike the Longridge example, the
others 
are painted in polychrome: some salts are in several colors and others are
paint- 
ed only in yellow and blue.2 
    The shape of this and the closely related salts is thought to derive
from Ital- 
ian maiolica examples, perhaps themselves after early metalwork examples.:
No 
exact matches for the vessel shape have been identified yet,4 but scrolled
floral 
motifs (different in details) inside the wells of some of the English salts
do have 
fairly close counterparts on sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italian
tin 
glaze.5 The flowers in the well of one of the potychrome English salts are
much 
like those on a 1633 dated Longridge fecundity dish (no. D1), and flowers
in 
another of the salts resemble those on a fuddling cup in this collection
(no. D292) 
and a 1639 dated bottle.6 The stylized flower on the Longridge salt has multi-

lobed leaves and cross-hatching of the stems like some on one of the othcr
salts 
and another fuddling cup. (Unlike the salt shown here, however, both of the
lat- 
ter vessels' flowers have spiraled tendrils.)7 The edge motifs on the tops
of the 
salts also differ; some have a row of interlocking scrolls and others, sets
of 
straight or wavy lines with or without dots. 
 
 
1. In that reference, the height is misrecorded as 
4 118' 111.5 cm). 
2. Archer. V&A. no. G.I: Hobson, Btritish Muse- 
sins, no. E.~ (misrecorded as BIrisitol Museum in 
Arc her, V&A, no. G.1l; Rackham, (laisher, vol. 1, 
nos. 1418 1419; (hiristie's IL), October 14. 1985, 
lot 8. 
 
 
3. Archer, V&A, no. C.I Horne, Collection, 
pt. 19, no, 552. 
 
 
4. See Norman. Waullace C'ollection. p. 272, 
no. C 136, for au mid-16th-ccntuuy Llrbino rectan- 
gsulaur salt with focur lison's paw feset andI (painted) 
acanthusiseaif corners aind classiccal scenes. 
 
 
5. Compare Archer, V&A, no, G.1, with Norman, 
Wallace Collection, p. 125, no. C 55 (1534 dated 
dish hack), and Vydrova, Italian Majolica. no. 50 
lFaensza costrel, c. 16001. 
6. Conspare Chrustiu's 11.1, October 14, 1985, lot 8 
(salt) with the 1633 dish (ino, Dt). (For reference 
is) a 1635 1640 lecsndity dish with related flow- 
ers in the National Trust collection at T'he Vyne 
in I lampshire, see' Arc her, V&A, no. G.1). 
 
 
7. For comparable flowers, some with spiral-ten- 
dlriled motifs, see Archer, V&A, nos. Ci. Isalt), 
11.3 (fu~ddlung cup), longridge tuddling cup 
(no. 1)292); 1,ipski and Archer, Date'd IDelftware, 
nos, 1255 (1639 dauted bottle). 
 
 
The Longridge Collection 231 
 
 
I 
 
 
Southwark0 London 
 
 
H.: 3 3/4" (9.5 cm); 
 
 
of feet. 
 
 
solidly colored. 
 
 
D207. SALT