1. Garry Atkins, An Exhibition of English Pottery, exh. cat., 107 Kensington Church Street, London, March 11–22, 2003 (London: G. Atkins, 2003), no. 15.
2. For early sponged decoration, see Michael Archer, Delftware: The Tin-Glazed Earthenware of the British Isles, exh. cat. (London: The Stationery Office, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1997), p. 281, no. f2, and p. 78, no. a9. For late sponge decoration, see ibid., p.137, no. b44.
3. Frank Britton, London Delftware (London: J. Horne, 1987), p. 71, J, upper left; Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware: Tin-Glazed Earthenware, 1600–1800 (London: Sotheby Publications, 1984), p. 215, no. 954; Archer, Delftware, p. 406, no. L11.
4. For a mug at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, see Lipski and Archer, Dated English Delftware, p. 180, no. 810. Similar leaves also decorate French faïence from the same era; see Henry-Pierre Fourest and Jeanne Giacomotti, L’oeuvre des faïenciers français du XVIe à la fin du XVIIIe siècle..., collection Connaissance des arts “Grands artisans d’autrefois” (Paris: Hachette, 1966), pp. 84–107.
5. For posset pots, see Lipski and Archer, Dated English Delftware, pp. 200–218; for salts, see ibid., p. 348, no. 1538, and Ivor Noël Hume, Early English Delftware from London and Virginia (Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1977), p. 29; for a drinking goblet, see Lipski and Archer, Dated English Delftware, p. 197, no. 875.
6. For more on dolls of this period, see Susan North, in Michael Snodin and John Styles, Design and the Decorative Arts: Britain, 1500–1900 (London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 2001), pp. 114–15. For more information about caned chairs, see Glenn Adamson, “The Politics of the Caned Chair,” American Furniture, edited by Luke Beckerdite (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England for the Chipstone Foundation, 2002), pp. 174–206. For the social use of tin-glazed earthenware, see Archer, Delftware, pp. 3–12.