| English potters were able to make a great | | | | now in the London Museum is a dish painted in |
| advance in the seventeenth century. They also | | | | colors with what appears to be the Tower of |
| imitate the art of pottery from other countries | | | | London, the date 1600, and an inscription reading |
| like Italy, France, Holland and Germany. And many | | | | 'The Rose is Red The Leaves are Grene God |
| Dutch emigrants who came to England brought | | | | Save Elizabeth Our Queene'. It seems probable |
| the art and then it became popular in England. | | | | that this is of London manufacture but the colors |
| Tin-glazed Earthenware | | | | used and style of painting are very like those on |
| Sometime before 1600, with help from | | | | ware made on the Continent at the time. |
| Continental potters and in imitation of Continental | | | | A further surviving group of wares is dated about |
| wares, English potters were able to make a great | | | | 1630, and consists of a number of mugs bearing |
| advance. It was by using an opaque white glaze | | | | English names and of shapes unlike current foreign |
| on which colored designs could be painted; a | | | | types. Whereas these and earlier wares show, if |
| method originating in Italy. | | | | anything, an Italian influence in the style and |
| This type of pottery, glazed with a composition | | | | coloring of their decoration, the productions that |
| based on oxide of tin, which was available readily | | | | followed were copied as closely as possible from |
| in England, is known as delftware from the similar | | | | Chinese porcelain; which by 1640-50 was coming |
| ware made at Delft in Holland; although the latter | | | | to England in sufficient quantity to be a serious |
| town did not become connected with | | | | rival. Not only was Oriental porcelain being brought |
| pottery-making until some time after English | | | | to England, but the other countries of Europe also |
| manufacture had started. The beginner has to | | | | imported it and their potteries in turn set out to |
| beware of confusing English delftware with Dutch | | | | imitate the newcomer. |
| Delftware; a confusion that is not restricted to | | | | It is clear that with pottery being made in England |
| the verbal sense. For, it was emigrant Dutch | | | | by Dutch potters copying Chinese originals and the |
| potters who came to England and started making | | | | same subjects being copied by the Dutch in their |
| tin-glazed earthenware in the second half of the | | | | own country, it cannot be an easy matter to |
| sixteenth century. | | | | distinguish between the two wares. No English |
| The first Dutch potters settled at Norwich, but | | | | wares are marked, and it is agreed that only |
| nothing of their work has been identified positively. | | | | those of the seventeenth century of certain |
| The earliest ware of the type is a series of | | | | types and bearing English names or inscriptions |
| brightly colored jugs, named after the village in | | | | can be accepted reasonably as originating in |
| Kent where one was once kept in the church, | | | | London. |
| West Mailing, near Maid stone. One of these | | | | Some rulers like Queen Elizabeth I petitioned two |
| 'Malling' jugs has a silver mount dated 1550, and | | | | Dutch potters and allowed them to settle and |
| others bear later dates between then and 1600. | | | | work in England. There were a lot of imitations of |
| Queen Elizabeth I was petitioned by two Dutch | | | | the arts of pottery making in the different parts |
| potters, named Jaspar Andries and Jacob Janson, | | | | of England. And it is not easy to distinguish the |
| to allow them to settle and work in England, and it | | | | original and the imitated wares. And some of the |
| is believed that Janson set up a pottery in London | | | | wares were not marked. |
| in 1571. An early English dated piece of pottery | | | | |