DE L FTWAR E Dining and Related Wares 
                                                                        
                                Other 
 
 
D199. PICKLE or SWEETMEAT                                               
                 Pickle and Sweetmeat Dishes 
DISH 
 
 
rroDaoiy Bristol 
Painted blue number"1" on bottom 
1720-1735 
 
H.: 1" (2.6 cm); L.: 5 3/8" (13.7 cm); 
W.: 3 3/8" (8.6 cm) 
 
BODY CLAY: Medium-grained buff. 
TIN GLAZE: Bluish white, slightly 
transparent on raised areas (especially 
on exterior). Overall, excluding bottom. 
SHAPE: Press-molded. Flat bottom. 
DECORATION: Painted. Flowering 
vine with border of stripes and wavy 
lines highlighting fluting. Number 'T' on 
bottom, 
 
Published: Atkins, Exhibition (1993), no. 20. 
 
 
KLike spoon trays (see nos. D333, D334), a type of tea equipage, this dish
is 
small and oblong. Its walls are comparatively high, however, and may indicate

that the piece was intended to serve pickles or sweetmeats at the dining
table. 
Some dated delftware, primarily from the 1720s, displays related flowers
and 
leaves amid other motifs. The "feel" of the decoration on the Longridge
dish per- 
haps is most like that of a probably Bristol 1722 dated bird-and-flowers
plate 
that also shares with it a fluted rim painted in narrow, radiating panels.
(The 
rim also occurs on an undated Longridge plate with a Chinese scene [no. D1191

and on one with a flower-and-dot cluster pattern.)' The "1" on
the underside of 
the pickle or sweetmeat dish probably is a painter's mark. 
 
 
1. lipski and Archer, Dated Delltware, nos. 317 (1722 plate), 
1017, 1059, 1066-1067, 1070 1072, 1078, 1095. Britton, Bris- 
tol, no. 8.29 (flower-and-dot cluster plate). For related flowers 
and leaves on a Bristol polychrome dish, see Britton, Bristol, 
col. pl. pý 34, no. 13.8. 
 
 
224 The Longridge Collection