O E LF TWA RE Dining and Related Wares 
              Dishes and Plates 
 
Horticultural Designs 
 
 
D160, D161, D162. DISHES 
 
London 
 
 
(D160) H.: 3 1/4" (8.3 cm); Diam,: 16' (40.6 cm) 
 
(D161) H,: 21/4' (5.8 cm); Diam.: 161/8 (40.9 cm) 
(D162) H.: 15/8" (4.2 cm); Diam.: 9" (22.9 cm) 
 
 
BODY CLAY: Fine-grained buff, 
 
(D161) darkish. 
TIN GLAZE: White, (D161) with fine 
 
crazing. (All) Overall on interiors. 
 
LEAD GLAZE: (D160, D161) Greenish in 
 
cast, (D161) heavily crazed, over pale 
slip. (D162) Slightly greenish in cast with 
 
considerable tin content, heavily pitted 
and speckled, over pale slip. (All) 
Overall on exteriors, excluding where 
 
footrims wiped clean. 
SHAPE: Thrown over hump molds. 
 
(D160) Shape A with flatter flange. 
 
(D161) Shape B1/b with shallow rim 
 
groove, footrim with two partially 
pierced holes. (D162) Shape B1/a with 
 
shallower profile and more convex rim. 
 
Footrim pierced with single hole, bro- 
 
ken before firing. 
DECORATION: Painted. Flowers 
 
growing from mound. Borders com- 
 
posed of concentric circles and blue 
 
dashes, (D160) with fruited foliate band. 
 
Published: (D162) Home, Collection, pt. 4, 
no. 79 
Ex coil.: (D1360) F L. Dickson. (D162) B. and M. 
Morgan. 
 
 
1. Archer, V&A, no. A.25; for related 
London tulip chargers, nos. A.23, 
A.26 A.32, A.34ý 
2. Archer, Chargers, p. 120; Archer, V&A, 
no. A.25. For an early example resembling 
Longridge no. D158, see Sotheby's (L), Lip- 
ski sale, March 10, 1981, lot 53. 
3. Archer comments (1998); Lipski and 
Archer, Dated Delftware, nos. 56, 62. 
4. Archer, Chargers, p. 119, pl. 54.e; 
Phillips, Pottery, pl. 10; Britton, Bristol, 
no. 3.10. 
5. Archer comments (1998). 
 
 
The painting of the flowers on these dishes is similar in many respects to
that 
on another large dish in the Longridge collection, which bears an elaborate
bor- 
der around a vase of flowers (no. D159). Archaeological evidence for more
or less 
similar tulip chargers is scarce, and what does exist was unearthed at London

sites.' A process of evolution is detectable in London tulip dishes (datable
as a 
whole from around 1670 to 1710), and, based on their ornamental motifs, 
shape, and glaze, the examples under discussion likely fit into the circa
1670 to 
1685 period. 
   Zigzag borders of leaves enclosing small fruit are found on Italian maiolica

made at Deruta in the early sixteenth century and may have been introduced

into England on Dutch Delftware. Approximate dating of the border on one
of 
the English dishes shown here (D160) is arrived at through comparison with
the 
borders on a 1669 dated dish depicting Charles II (much as on no. D8) with

Catherine of Braganza and a much simplified version on a 1673 example show-

ing Charles alone.' Undated dishes with similar border patterns include two

others with tulips and one depicting a ship near a shore with buildings.4

   One of the dishes shown here (D162) is unusually small. The lesser bright-

ness of the yellow on this example in comparison to the two others (D160,
D161) 
colored with the same pigment results from variations in the firing conditions.'

 
 
D)162 
 
 
186 The Longridge Collection 
 
 
1670-1685