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Article: Earthenwares for the table.(collecting and reproductions for daily use)(Brief Article)
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- October 1, 2000
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As Michael Archer relates in his superb, monumental catalogue of the delftware in London's Victoria and Albert Museum, collectors discovered the charm of English delft and other tin-glazed earthenwares as early as the end of the eighteenth century, not terribly long after the delftware industry succumbed to competition from other types of pottery.
In 1784 two pieces of delftware were recorded among the furnishings of the China Room in Horace Walpole's famous countryseat, Strawberry Hill. Even Queen Charlotte noted after her visit to Cothele, a medieval manor house in Cornwall, that in the house there were dessert plates of "Old Delph of a very large Size." Since ...