DELTWA RE ý1 Dining and Related Wares 
D ELFTW    E  Dishes and Plates 
 
 
Horticultural Designs 
 
 
H.: 21/4" (5.8 cm); Diam.: 16 1/8" (40.9 cm) 
 
BODY CLAY: Buff. 
TIN GLAZE: White. Overall on interior. 
LEAD GLAZE: Heavily crazed with 
manganese purple speckling and 
greenish cast, over pale slip. Overall on 
exterior, excluding where footrim 
wiped clean. 
SHAPE: Thrown over hump mold. 
Shape A but flatter with more everted 
rim. Footrim pierced with single hole. 
DECORATION: Painted, Flowers in 
vase. Borders composed of band of 
diaper, leaf, and fruit motifs, concentric 
circles, and dashes. 
 
 
Less common than "tulip chargers," on which flowers grow from a
mound 
(see nos. D158, D160-D162), are those depicting them emerging from ornate

two-handled vases. The earliest dated English dish depicting a vase of tulips
is 
an elegantly painted one from 1661 that shows a flower container set on a

checkerboard floor. As on the unusually flat dish shown here, the elaborate
bor- 
der is composed of panels containing pomegranates (symbolic of fertility),

leaves, and trelliswork, but the panels are different both in arrangement
and 
details. (Two dishes that display vases of flowers within simple blue dash
and cir- 
cle borders are dated, respectively, 1668 and 1676.)1 Variations on the complex

border, sometimes with other fruit in place of pomegranates, also occur on
vase- 
of-flower dishes that stylistically are more similar to the Longridge dish.'
(For 
apples or pomegranates painted in much the same style as the pear on the
bor- 
der of the dish shown here, see nos. D154, D155.) 
   Borders composed of trelliswork alternating with horticultural motifs
also 
occur on dated dishes with different types of central reserve motifs: one
1669 
equestrian dish has leaf-filled border reserves; a 1670 armorial dish has
floral 
motifs alternating with the trelliswork; and one 1671 dish has fruit and
leaves.: 
   Although Italian maiolica, some of it inspired by Iznik wares, ultimately

inspired pieces of the type shown here, two-handled vases of flowers are
found 
in some numbers on early Dutch Delft dishes.' These northern wares were 
imported into England on a large scale and likely aided in the transport
of the 
fashion to potters there. 
 
 
 
1. Lipski and Archer, Dated Delftware, 
nos. 37 (1661), 53 (1668), 66 (1676). 
2. Britton, Bristol, no. 3.14; Rackham and Read, 
English Pottery, pl. 60, fig. 105; Archer, Charg- 
ers, pls. 54d, 55b. 
3. Iipski and Archer, Dated Delftware, 
nos. 55 (1669), 57 (1670), 59 (1671). 
4. For 16th- and 17th-century examples, see 
Scholten, van Drecht, nos. 8, 38, 39. 
 
 
184 The Longridge Collection 
 
 
D159. DISH 
London 
1665-1680