DEL FT WARE Dining and Related Wares 
               Dishes and Plates 
 
 
D142. DISH 
Bristol 
Probably Limekiln Lane 
Number "4" on exterior 
c. 1730-1735 
 
 
H.. 2" (5.1 cm); Diam.: 10 7/8"(27.6 cm) 
 
 
BODY CLAY: Fine-grained buff. 
TIN GLAZE: Bluish white. 
SHAPE: Molded. Shape D. 
DECORATION: Painted. Stag in land- 
scape with rocks, plants, and fence. 
Border composed of different Chinese 
figures among rocks, plants, and fences. 
Exterior bears number "4" and double- 
stroke and cross under-rim markings. 
 
 
Birds, Animals, and Fish 
 
 
  he designs on the front of this dish are loosely based on Ming Transitional
and 
Kangxi porcelain originals and have counterparts on both Continental and
En- 
glish delftware.' The Longridge example is likely to be contemporary with
a 
1733 dated dish depicting som~ewhat similar long figures also wearing unusual

hats with turned-up brims.2 Other decorative elements on that dish link it

through archaeological material to the L~imekiln Lane pottery in Bristol.)
The 
repeating cross and double-stroke motifs on the reverse of the Longridge
dish 
further strengthen the Bristol attribution. Several slightly later well-painted

plates in blue and white show similarly posed deer within Chinese-figured
bor- 
ders, and a dish with removable sections depicts such a deer on its tray.4

 
 
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1.0:o Nor lherni I 01ropean1 delitware, se 
Sc holtenvi w I )re44hi, nos. 108 i border);p 118 
(deer .1nd border.)( .arwe~ll C hines I'orcelain, 
no. 161 (bord(er). 
2. britlon. Bristiol. 4ol. pI. p. 31, no. 12 14. Fr a 
170 3 d ish dis playing ea rlier vers ions ol land- 
stpe elementi on I le I oingiidge dish, see I ips ki 
.1nd Xt hei , I XaiNId l~elftwarIe, no. 236. 
 
 
1. Se Ray, Wirren0, no. 145. 
4, Ibid.. p1. 77, pp. 208 209, nos. 154,i 154b; 
Brpiiion, Brnistol, no. 11.10, tGarne4r, I ,inbei h. Bris- 
111 (or I iv erpoiol, pls 8 Ia 8 lb. Archer4 4Oioitents 
(1 998j: "All ol1 these' Iplalesi are 01 Brist~ol origin" 
 
 
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