porcelain. Second quarter of 18th century. T.N. 

 I . one sherd from T.N. 16. 

 I. Drug jar. Flat and slightly exerted rim, straight 

 bod) section, and spreading base; the bottom 

 slightlv domed and the glaze thin. Ornamented 

 in pale blue with groups of horizontal lines and a 

 body /one decorated with linked ovals created by 

 the drawing of two overlapping wavy lines. Prob- 

 ably of London manufacture and of 17th-century 

 date.'" T.N. 30. 



5. Porringer. Slightly exerted rim and handle with 

 heart-shaped aperture: body slightly bulbous and 

 incurving to a straight foot; the glaze thick and 

 gray. Probably of London manufacture." Late 

 17th century to early 18th century. T.N. 23. 



6. Shallow ointment pot or jar. Rim flattened, un- 

 dercut, and slightly everted; base markedly domed, 

 thick pinkish-white glaze. Almost certainly of 

 London manufacture and dating from latter part 

 of 17th century. T.N. 30. 



7. Ointment pot. Thin, slightly everted rim over a 

 bulbous body; the foot slightly spreading beneath 

 it and slightly conical beneath; the glaze thick and 

 gray. 18th century. T.N. 23. 



Saucer. Conjectural reconstruction derived from 

 I i.isc and rim sherds. The base thick; the foot 

 solid and only slightly raised, but the rim thin 

 and with a much more even finish. The piece has 

 a ihick while glaze with a slight pink cast and is 

 haphazardly splashed with blue. The technique 

 would appear to be the reverse of the London 

 copies of Ncvers faience whereon white dots are 

 splashed oxer a blue ground. 1 '" 1 This object appears 

 io be without parallel in published sources, but 

 may tentatively be given the same dating as the 



98 The association of color ami style of decoration coupled 

 with tin- relationship of diameter to height as displayed here 

 is generally indicative of early date. In the 18th century, jars 

 of this diameter tended to be taller, less spread at the base, 

 .mil with the blue decoration much darker. 



1 Waste products from London delftware kilns were used to 

 build up the north foreshore of the River Thames between 

 ( Kieenhithe and Dowgate in the City of London. Among the 

 many fragments recovered from this source were biscuit por- 

 ringer handles of a type similar to the Tutter's Neck example. 

 I he mannei in which the rim is folded over the handle seems 

 to be ,i London characteristic, Bristol examples more often 

 luted straight to the rim. The ["names material was 

 d in the late 17th century and probably came from a 

 <ui the Bankside on the south side of the river. 

 " \ very small porringer rim sherd of this ware was found 

 i ieck in o nit' \t T.N. 24 : not illustrated. 



London white on blue, i.e., about 1680-1690. "" 

 T.N. 3d. 



9. Pedestal base from a small salt. Base conical 

 within; glaze thick and very white; bowl decorated 

 internally with profile portrait of a cavalier. This 

 extremely unusual item was, by a remarkable 

 coincidence, paralleled by an identical fragment 

 found by the writer on the foreshore of the Rixer 

 Thames at Queenhithe in London. The txvo are 

 shoxvn together in figure 11. About 1660-1680. 102 

 T.N. 23. 



Id. Large dish or charger reconstructed on the basis 

 of base and rim fragments. Diameter approxi- 

 mately 1 ft. 3 in. The rim turns gently downward 

 beyond the wide marly, and the foot is squat and 

 slightly spread. The glaze is thick and white, and 

 the rim decoration takes the form of broad rings of 

 blue enclosing a marly zone ornamented with an 

 alternating lozenge and diamond motif created from 

 two rows of interlocking arcs, the upper painted in 

 orange and the lower in blue. The decoration of 

 the center of the dish is uncertain, but was painted 

 in the same two colors, perhaps in a stylized pome- 

 granate design. Such dishes are frequently deco- 

 rated on the rim edges with dashes of blue that give 

 them the name "blue dash chargers," I03 but there 

 is sufficient glaze surviving on this example to 

 indicate that there was no such ornament. Another 

 somewhat unusual feature is that the back of the 

 dish is tin-glazed; the majority of such dishes were 

 coated on the reverse xvith a thin yellow or yellow- 

 ish-green lead glaze. Such dishes xvere frequently 

 used as wall or dresser ornaments and not for use at 

 table; consequently, the footrings are generally 

 pierced for suspension. No suspension holes occur 

 on the small sections of the footring that survive on 

 this example. The dish is believed to be of London 

 manufacture on the evidence of wasters found in the 

 Borough of Southwark, 104 London (see fig. 10), 

 though the style is clearly of Dutch origin. 106 



"" See Garner, English Deljtware, p. 15, fig. 30a. 



'"-' Dating based on the Carolian appearance of the figure. 



103 E. A. Dowman, Blue Dash Chargers and other Early English 

 Tin Enamel Circular Diihes (London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd., 

 1919). 



1(14 From a kiln site found during building operations for 

 1 lav's Wharf between Toolley Street and Pickelherring Street 

 in 1958. 



ios Sec Lrnsi Grohnj. . Tongefasse in Bremen teit dem Mittelaltei 

 (Bremen: Arthur Geist, 1949), p. 120, Abb. 78, Abb. 80a. 



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