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Article: Dated English delftware and slipware in the Longridge Collection.
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- June 1, 1999
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The Longridge Collection of ceramics is English pottery Valhalla. Nestled in a New England house with rare English and Continental treen, medieval ivory and metalwork, English stumpwork and other needlework, and early furniture and carvings, this extraordinary collection of ceramics can be divided into two main groups: about 440 pieces of tin-glazed earthenware (delftware) and 100 pieces of lead-glazed earthenware with slip decoration (slipware). Many of the pieces are quite rare, and all reflect the owner's fascination with bold shapes, decorative motifs, and inscriptions. Conspicuous is an almost unheard of number of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century dated pots and ...