DELFTWARE Dining and Related Wares 
               Dishes and Plates 
 
 
D6. DISH 
Southwark, London 
Probably Richard Newnham, 
Pickleherring 
1645-1665 
 
H.: 31/4" (8.3 cm); L.: 17112" (44.5 cm); 
W.: 141/8" (35.9 cm) 
 
BODY CLAY: Fine-grained buff. 
TIN GLAZE: White. That on exterior 
unevenly applied with a few greenish 
patches and some unglazed areas. 
SHAPE: Molded. Deep-welled dish 
with unevenly smoothed exterior. 
DECORATION: Painted and relief. 
Naturalistic arrangement including 
reptiles, shells, vegetation, and water. 
 
Ex col. J. P Kasseboum. 
 
 
                                            -Palissy Type"c WVres 
 
 
 
 
 
This important piece, like two others also in this collection (nos. D)4,
D5), 
derives from late sixteenth-century earthenware confidently attributable
to 
the Saintonge, France, factory of potter Bernard Palissy.' The same mold
used 
to shape the Longridge dish was used when creating two other English delift-

ware dishes, one inscribed on the back "EI A/1638" over a flourish.'
The 
frogs-two on the 1638 dish and four on the undated examples-were applied

after the dishes were molded. The lizard and snake heads may have been 
molded and applied, or perhaps they were heavily undercut while the clay
was 
still wet. 
    Despite possible differences in date, the closeness of the painting style
of all 
 three snake dishes may indicate that they are from the same factory, most
likely 
 Pickleherring. An oval with wiggly lines radiating from one side forms a
border 
 motif on the back of the non-Longridge snake dish without an inscription
and 
 resembles exterior ornament on a molded bowl with a coat of arms and a "bird-

 on-rocks" pseudo-kraak dish.' (The latest dated birds-on-rocks piece
is from 
 1651.) A 1661 dated fecundity dish confidently attributed to Pickleherring
also 
 displays the oval/wiggly line motif." 
    If the individuality of that motif means all four so-decorated pieces
are from 
 one production site, it helps form a link between snake and fecundity dishes.

 This hypothesis is supported by the fact that the "EIA" initials
seen on the 1638 
 snake dish also occur on the back of a fecundity dish with the same date.
It is 
 virtually certain that the two dishes were made for the same clients, and
it 
 is very likely that they were both ordered from the same pottery. 
 
 
1. For French Palissy examples, see Dauterman, 
Palissy, p. 188, no. 8; Morley-Fletcher and 
Mcllroy, Pictorial History, p. 178, no. 2. 
2. Toledo Musetum collection, no. 25.2 
(uninscribed). For the 1638 dish, see Lipski and 
Archer, Dated D)elltware, col. pl. 1, no. 92; 
Rackham., Glaisher, vol. 1, no. 1399. 
 
 
3. Rackham, Glaisher, vOL 1, no. 1309 (bowl); 
Grigsby, Chipstone, no. 36 (bird-on-rock). 
4. Lipski and Archer, Dated Delftware, no. 111 
(fecundity). For Pickleherring attribution, 
see Archer, V&A, p. 110. 
5. Lipski and Archer, Dated Delftware, no. 93. 
 
 
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