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Article: Delft and dress at Deerfield.(tin-glazed earthenware exhibition)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- September 1, 2001
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T in-glazed earthenware originated in the Near East around the ninth century and was being made in the Low Countries in the early sixteenth century. Delft was a center of production, and after 1567, when the Flemish potters Jasper Andries and Jacob Janson emigrated to Norwich, it was produced in England. The center for delft production in England moved to London, where Janson was granted a privilege to make tiles and drug jars in 1571. The delft industry grew in Southwark, and by 1640 there were some forty potters working there, many of them Dutch immigrants. After 1660 some potters removed to Lambeth on the south side of the Thames River, and by the eighteenth century ...