DOther Tiles, Plaques, 
DELFTWARE 
               and a Wall Niche 
 
 
D422. TILE 
Probably London 
1750-1775 
 
 
L.: 5" (12.7 cm); 
W.: 5" (12.7 cm) 
 
BODY CLAY: Fine-grained buff. 
TIN GLAZE: Bluish white. Sides and 
reverses unglazed. 
SHAPE: Shaped in tile frame. 
DECORATION: Painted. Vase of 
flowers. 
 
 
U     rn-shaped vases form one of the most popular motifs on eighteenth-cen-

tury tiles. They typically are shown in combination with decorative corners
and 
borders and vary widely in design details, painting styles, and glazes.,
The Long- 
ridge tile's "duck-egg blue" glaze pools somewhat and is unevenly
applied; these 
characteristics and the unevenness of the biscuit back suggest a London origin.

Some experts assign tiles with only minor differences in details and a very
sim- 
ilar painting style to Bristol. The thinness of the piece indicates that
it is latish 
in date.' 
 
 
1. For vase tiles dating through the 1760s, see 
Ray, Tiles, p. 30, fig. 12, pls. 49-53; Home, Tiles, 
nos. 320 373 passim, no. 674: Archer, V&A, 
nos. N.245-N.315, col. pls. 289-300. 
2. Horne comments January 1999). For a Lon- 
don-attributed tile very like the one shown here, 
see Home, Tiles, no. 350. For differently detailed 
examples very similar in painting style, attrib- 
uted for unrecorded reasons to Bristol, see 
Archer, V&A, col. pl. 298, nos. N.303-N.304. 
 
 
474 The Longridge Collection