1. Louis Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, Tin Glazed Earthenware, 1600–1800 (London: Sotheby Publications, 1984), pp. 52–126. 2. Cary Carson, “The Consumer Revolution in Colonial America: Why Demand?” in Of Consuming Interest: The Style of Life in the Eighteenth Century, edited by Cary Carson, Ronald HoVman, and Peter J. Albert (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia for the United States Capital Historical Society, 1994), p. 604. 3. Lipski and Archer, Dated English Delftware, pp. 52, 53, 67, 75, and 604. 4. Amanda E. Lange, Delftware at Historic Deerfield, 1600–1800 (Deerfield, Mass.: Historic Deerfield, Inc., 2001), p. 111. 5. Carson, “Consumer Revolution,” p. 605. 6. The English example, which depicts a wreath motif, is illustrated in J. P. Allan, Medieval and Post-Medieval Finds from Exeter, 1971–1980 (Exeter, Eng.: Exeter City Council and the University of Exeter, 1984), p. 75. Of the arabesque type, the example from Holland can be seen in Frits Scholten et al., The Edwin Van Drecht Collection (Tokyo: Ashashi Shinbunsha Tokyo Kikakukyoko, 1995), p. 97. 7. Lange, Delftware at Historic Deerfield, pp. 11, 112. For a summary of the genre of Merryman plates, see John C. Austin, British Delft at Williamsburg (Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in association with Jonathan Horne Publications, 1994), p. 148.