DEL FTWARE Dining and Related Wares 
              Dishes and Plates 
 
Horticultural Designs 
 
 
D156, D157. DISHES 
Southwark, London 
 
c. 1655 
 
 
(D156) H 1 3/4" (4.4 cm); 
Diam.: 9 58" (24.5 cm) 
(D157) H.: 2 5/8" (6.7 cm); 
 
Diam.: 13 3/8" (34 cm) 
 
 
BODY CLAY: Medium-grained buff. 
 
TIN GLAZE: White. Overall on 
interiors. 
 
LEAD GLAZE: Slightly greenish in cast, 
over pale slip. Overall on exteriors, 
 
excluding where footrims wiped clean. 
SHAPE: Thrown over hump mold. 
 
Shape Bifa. 
 
DECORATION: Painted. Leaves with 
 
nuts or berries. 
 
 
These dishes derive directly from a type made at Montelupo in Tuscany and

exported to Northern Europe during the first half of the seventeenth century.

Large leaf patterns are most commonly found on tazze but also occur on dishes,

and both shapes have been excavated in Holland and England.' 
    Several English examples resemble the Longridge dishes,' and related
frag- 
ments in association with factory waste have been excavated in London. A

broad range of variations on this design were also made, indicating that
such 
patterns were reasonably popular.1 No dated dish exactly matching the type

shown here is known, but somewhat similar fleshy leaves form part of the

decoration of two pieces dated 1655 and 1657 and the slightly later (undated)

Longridge dish depicting a vase of flowers (no. D159).1 
 
 
 
1. Hurst, Neal, and van Beuningen, Pottery, 
pp. 18 21; Hurst, ed., Wilson, Italian Pottery, 
p. 214, figs. 4a 4b. 
2. See Sotheby's IL), June 3, 1980, lot 13; Octo- 
ber 18, 1988, lot 490. Phillips (L), December 1 2, 
1993, lots 168, 182a. For other variations, see 
Taggart, Burnap, nos. 93 95; Rackham, Glaisher, 
vol. 2, p1s. 95A 95B. 
3. Rackham, Glaisher, vol. 2, p1s. 95A-95B; 
Fisher, St. Louis Collection, p. 626, pl. 1. 
4. Lipski and Archer, Dated Delftware, nos. 28, 
32. 
 
 
182 The Longridge Collection 
 
 
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