Troy D. Chappell
Off the Shelf—a Footnote for English Delftware

Ceramics in America 2008

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  • Figure 1
    Figure 1

    Vase, London or Bristol, 1700–1710. Delftware. H. 6 3/8". (Author’s collection; photo, Gavin Ashworth.) The thrown band and colors appear to be unrecorded for English objects of this type.

  • Figure 2
    Figure 2

    Vase, London, ca. 1690. Delftware. H. 5 3/4". (Courtesy, Jonathan Horne.) The vase is decorated in shades of blue within dark manganese line boundaries.

  • Figure 3
    Figure 3

    Vase, London, late 17th–early 18th century. Delftware. H. 6 1/4". (Courtesy, Museum of London.) This example has white tin-glaze splotches over a dark blue dipped body. 

  • Figure 4
    Figure 4

    Vase, London, ca. 1690. Delftware. H. 5 1/4". (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.) The painted and speckled blue ground of this vase surrounds blue-and-yellow star-shape flowers within clear circles. For a small meiping vase (13.5 cm) with chrysanthemum heads in a white reserve on an underglaze blue background, see Jessica Harrison-Hall, Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum (London: British Museum Press, 2001), fig. 9.40.