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As with most decorated delftwares, these had a dual function as bowls for food (perhaps fruit or nuts) and as room decoration.<br><br><b>Materials & Making</b><br>Though rare today, these dishes were made in huge numbers by several large London potteries, first in Southwark and later also in Lambeth. The method of manufacture suggests the speed and economy with which these dishes were made. Only the front is covered with expensive opaque-white tin-glaze while the back is simply lead-glazed, and there are scars on the front (concealed by the decoration) where the dishes were stacked together face-down in the kiln, separated only by small clay 'stilts'.<br><br><b>Design & Designing</b><br>The very limited range of oxide colours available to 17th-century delftware potters did not deter them from painting exotic flowers. The bold tulips, lilies and carnations on this dish, which show a familiarity with the decoration on Italian and Netherlandish maiolica as well as on Turkish Iznikware, would have been considered quite exotic, partly because tulips would have been imported as not native to England.","physicalDescription":"Tulips, lilies, carnations: a bud and leaves grow from a low mound, painted in yellow, ochre, manganese-purple, turquoise green and dull blue.  Dull blue dashes  on the rim.  Three stilt marks on the front (about 8.5 cms point to point).\nBody colour: Pale buff.\nGlaze: Bluish white.  A shiny lead-glaze with strong greenish areas and traces of ochre over a pale slip covers the back.  The foot-rim has small pools of blue and ochre tin-glaze on it and two stilt marks (7 cms point to point).  Within the foot-rim is a part of a stilt (?) adhering and three small round clay protruberances roughly in line about 1.5 cms apart.  These seem to be part of the original manufacturing process.\nShape: Shape B.  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E.A. Downman in Clapton, London. Purchased from him, 1911.\r\nMade in London","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Tulips, lilies and carnations","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Archer, Michael. <font -u>Delftware: the tin-glazed earthenware of the British Isles. A catalogue of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum</font>. London: HMSO, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1997. 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When City of London livery companies melted down their silver-gilt objects during the Civil War, they often commissioned replacements made in tin-glazed earthenware and painted with their arms.  However, this earthenware, a relatively fragile material, was never adopted by the English nobility, as it was in Spain and France.","date":{"text":"27/03/2003","earliest":"2003-03-27","latest":"2003-03-27"}}],"partNumbers":["C.244-1911"],"accessionNumberNum":"244","accessionNumberPrefix":"C","accessionYear":1911,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"<u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.","id":"THES50964"},"number":"A28."}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LP3888","2019LP2394","2019LU2546"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-06-24","recordCreationDate":"2000-01-29","availableToBook":false}}