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