Objects
Bottle
Alcohol
Consumption
[Taken from catalogue entry]
A Southwark-made blue and white ‘delftware’ plate, dated 1628. With loop handle, painted with birds in flight and on rocks among stylized flowering shrubs, foliage and flowerhead-pattern borders, the neck with concentric lines and geometric ornament. Inscribed 1628 beneath the handle.
Probably Pickleherring factory (owned by Christian Wilhelm). The style of decoration has been identified by broken pots found on this site.
Delftware bottles were too porous to use as storage vessels, they were most likely used for serving drink. Jugs like this were made in the same style as stoneware examples from the Rhineland, Germany. In the late seventeenth century, they began to be copied in England at John Dwight’s factory in Fulham.
Delftware examples are comparatively rare but six bottles in a similar design to this one are known, all dated 1628. All are painted with this so-called ‘birds-on-rocks’ pattern, loosely based on Chinese blue-and-white porcelain.
Creator
Christian Wilhelm
male
Potter
Production
Dates of Production: 1628
Pickleherring Pottery, Southwark, London, England
Materials
Earthenware
Earthenware- white
Museological Details
D.O.C/57
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