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Cheaper than porcelain, though offering similar decorative possibilities, delftware (English-made, tin-glazed earthenware) was a popular choice. This stylishly decorated delftware plate, dating from the mid-1750s, probably represents the high-point in the fashionability of the material. However, delftware was already facing competition from the white salt-glazed stonewares of Staffordshire, and both were soon to be eclipsed by creamware.<br><br><b>Decoration</b><br>The single most important influence on the decoration of English delftware was porcelain from East Asia. From the early 17th century to the very end of the 18th century, a succession of Chinese and Japanese painting styles and motifs were adopted by potters in England. Imports of Chinese porcelain during the 17th century provided prototypes that were copied more or less faithfully, but from around 1680, an English Chinoiserie style began to emerge, with pottery painters inventing their own simplifications, abstractions and patterns. Both the central motif of this plate and its powdered pigment border show an East Asian influence.","physicalDescription":"The front is covered with powdered manganese-purple, with the exception of five reserved panels of Chinese figures standing in landscapes, holding a stick or fishing, all in blue.\r\nBody colour: Buff.\r\nGlaze: Greyish white.  Many small white dots in the glaze, particularly visible in painted areas.\r\nShape: Shape M with slightly more upturned flange.  (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. <font -u>Delftware</font>. 1997)","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Cantle, Thomas","id":"A1561"},"association":{"text":"manufacturer","id":"x33306"},"note":"probably"}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"tin-glazed earthenware","id":"x30216"}],"techniques":[{"text":"painting (image-making)","id":"AAT54216"},{"text":"glazed","id":"AAT53914"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Tin-glazed earthenware, painted","categories":[{"text":"Delftware","id":"THES48969"},{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"},{"text":"British Galleries","id":"THES48985"}],"styles":[{"text":"Chinoiserie","id":"AAT21167"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"CER","id":"THES48594"},"images":["2006AM5805","2006AW0544"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"52D (VA)","id":"THES49257"},"free":"","case":"CA6","shelf":"","box":"8"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Plate","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Temple Back","id":"x30287"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"probably"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1754","earliest":"1749-01-01","latest":"1758-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Bequeathed by Prof. F. H. Garner","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"23","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Diameter: 9 1/16 ins\r\nDimensions checked: Registered Description; 01/01/1998 by KN","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Mr C.J. Lomax. Professor F.H. Garner Bequest, 1965.\nExhibited: Rijksmuseum, No: 110.\r\nProbably made at the pottery of Thomas Cantle, Temple Back, Bristol","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Delftware plate, painted with panels of Chinese figures in landscapes. British (Bristol), ca.1754.","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: The Stationery Office, 1997. p.151, Cat. No.B.73. ISBN 0 11 290499 8"},{"reference":{"text":"Archer, Michael,<i>English Delftware. 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The painter achieved the speckled effect by spraying a pigment through a straw.","date":{"text":"27/03/2003","earliest":"2003-03-27","latest":"2003-03-27"}}],"partNumbers":["C.78-1965"],"accessionNumberNum":"78","accessionNumberPrefix":"C","accessionYear":1965,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"<u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.","id":"THES50964"},"number":"B73."}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LR2192","2019LP8610","2019LV5509"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-25","recordCreationDate":"1998-06-23","availableToBook":false}}