D171, D172, D173. DISHES 
Southwark or Rotherhithe, London 
 
(D171) c. 1640 
(D172, D173) 1630-1650 
 
 
(D171) H.: 2 1/2" (6.4 cm); 
Diam,: 13" (33 cm) 
(D172) H.: 1 7/8" (4.8 cm); 
 
Diam.: 9 1/2" (24.1 cm) 
(D173) H.: 2 1/2" (6.4 cm); 
Diam.: 12 !/2" (3.8 cm) 
 
 
BODY CLAY: Buff, (D171) with large 
inclusions, (D172) fine-grained, (D173) 
 
medium-grained and reddish. 
TIN GLAZE: White, (D171) slightly 
transparent, (D172) with medium craz- 
ing, (D173) with a few large pits. (All) 
 
Overall on interiors. 
LEAD GLAZE: (D171) Somewhat 
 
muddy. (D172) Greenish in cast. 
 
(D173) Bright green. (All) Over pale slip. 
Overall on exteriors, excluding where 
 
 
footrims wiped clean. 
SHAPE: (D171) Molded. Shape A with 
floral rim bosses deeply pushed out 
from behind. (D172, D173) Thrown over 
hump molds. Shape B1/b. (D173) Footrim 
pierced with single (broken) hole. 
 
DECORATION: Painted. Geometric 
patterns. (D171) Border composed of 
 
 
curvilinear motifs, raised bosses, and 
concentric circles. (D172, D173) Borders 
composed of pseudo-kraak motifs and 
 
 
concentric circles. 
 
 
Ex coils.: (D173) L. L. Lipski; J. P Kasseboum. 
 
 
Detail of rim of no. D 171 
 
 
D171 
 
 
Only one example closely similar in decoration to the embossed-rim dish 
(D171) has been identified.' Aids to dating these dishes include polychrome

examples of generally similar shape but with differently painted rims and
edges: 
a Temptation dish is inscribed "TTM/1635"; a dish depicting Mary
Salome is 
inscribed "ICA" and dated 1637.1 Dutch dishes with similar rim
and edge treat- 
ments are known from around 1600 and include one with a pomegranate and 
grapes motif somewhat like that on one Longridge dish (no. D154)." 
   The borders on Longridge dishes (D172, D173) derive from Chinese export

kraak porcelain. The highly simplified motifs possibly represent the lotus
and 
the artemisia leaf, taken, respectively, from the Eight Buddhist Emblems
and the 
Eight Precious Things. Judging by the number of fairly similar dishes that
sur- 
vive, such designs were quite popular in England and were produced at more

than one factory. Fragments of related dish borders and centers have been
exca- 
vated at London sites.' As is true of Longridge examples (D172, D173), others
in 
this group typically are solidly colored at the edges, but at least one example
has 
this region ornamented with dash-filled arcs. The central motif on the three

Longridge dishes also is found on Dutch dishes and on 1640 to 1660 Anglo-

Netherlands dish fragments, the latter unearthed in England at Norwich.'

 
 
1. Archer and Morgan, China Dishes, no. 6. 
2. Archer, V&A, no. A.13, col. pl. 10; no. A.53, col. 
pl. 32. For an undated, embossed Adam and Eve 
dish, see Austin, Delft, no. 155. 
3. van Gangelen, Kersloot, and Venhuis, 
Slibaardewerk, p. 81, fig. 101a (checkerboard). 
Scholten, van Drecht, nos. 13-15, 18 19, 37, 58 
(various centers). Korf, Majolica 1, no. 23 (pome- 
granate and grapes). 
 
 
4. Archer, V&A, no. A.45. Noel Hume, London 
and Virginia, pp. 45 48, pls. 45-49; p. 77, 
figs. 1 2; col. pis. opp. pp. 84, 85. Museum of 
London, Southwark and Lambeth, p. 324, 
fig. 137, no. 1368. 
5. Austin, Delft, no. 158. 
6. Korf, Majolica 2, figs. 148, 149; Jennings, 
Norwich, p. 196, fig. 86, no. 1392. 
 
 
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