London Delftware

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Profusely illustrated. Covers London pottery producers from the later 16th century to the early 19th, with a strong focus on products - 'I have tried to give the reader not just a catalogue of pieces reasonably representative of London delftware, but also a picture of the places where it was made and of the people who made it, based on historical and archaeological research'. Has chapters: 'Chronological table of London delftware factories' [p1]; 'An introduction to delftware'; 'The genesis and the exodus - Antwerp'; 'Malling jugs'; 'The London delftware potteries [pp27-79] being profiles of: Wapping - Hermitage; Southwark - Pickleherring / Horsely Down / Rotherhithe / Still Stairs / Montague Close / The Clink / Bear Garden / Gravel Lane; Lambeth - Carlisle House / Norfolk House / High Street / Copthall / Glasshouse Street / Vauxhall; Putney; Mortlake; Isleworth; 'The Catalogue' [pp97-186]. An appendix lists c450 potters 'largely subsequent to those listed by Rhoda Edwards, and therefore complementary to it', giving names and dates, structured by pottery [pp195-99]. [See R Edwards, 'London potters, circa 1570-1710', Journal of Ceramic History, 6, 1974]. Also an inventory of the goods on death of Nathaniel Oade, d1726, of Gravel Lane Pottery. And also a family tree of the Chilwell family descending from Humfry Chilwell of Swepson, Leicestershire, largely associated with the Vauxhall Pottery, c1696-mid-18th century