1. See John C. Austin, "J. Palin Thorley (1892-1987), Potter and Designer: Part 1,” Ceramics in America, edited by Robert Hunter (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England for the Chipstone Foundation, 2005), pp. 160-201. 2. The plate was the "GR” plate, which must have been produced for a very short time as it appears only in that one price list. For further discussion on this design, see p. 196, fig. 52. 3. Louise Bang Fisher, An Eighteenth-Century Garland: The Flower and Fruit Arrangements of Colonial Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg, 1951). 4. I noticed the dish was missing during one of my last visits to Palin but do not know whether he gave it away or sold it; perhaps it was stolen. 5. For more on this period in his career, see Austin, "Thorley, Part 1,” pp. 179-81. 6. The first refers to a slipware piece he made in his youth (ibid., p. 166); the second to a trick he played on Frederick Rhead (ibid., p. 184); and the third to the luster tea service found in Richmond (see pp. 207, 209 herein).