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London factories

(1570 - 1846)

London was the first major centre in Britain to make tin-glazed ware successfully and on a commercial scale at the end of the 16th century. The term 'delftware' was widely used from the 18th century onwards to refer to tin-glazed earthenware made in Britain, rather than the products of the famous Dutch centre of Delft.

The chief attraction of tin-glazing is in allowing potters to decorate their wares with coloured pigments applied over a lead glaze made opaque by the addition of tin. During the later medieval period and into the 16th century, Londoners had only been able to enjoy such decorative pottery as it was brought into the capital from the Continent, with Spanish, Italian and Dutch or Flemish tin-glazed wares the most common types found on excavated sites.

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A13126 cup; fuddling cup. 1634-1667	A11483 bowl. 1601-1699	A11204 cup. 1571-1800	A6362 salt. 1668-1700
A5249 salt. 1601-1700	A4417 jar; drug jar. 1601-1699	A4400 drinking vessel; bowl. 1651-1700	A4398 salt. 1601-1700
A4392 salt. 1636-1665	A4388 salt. c. 1675	A4353 spittoon. 1701-1800	A4344 jar; drug jar. 1701-1800
A4343 jar; drug jar. 1701-1800	A785 jar; drug jar. 1601-1650	24368 plate. 1626-1630	17896 plate. 1680
13609 bowl. 1601-1633	6306 bowl. 1715	5994 jug. 1651-1700	85.3/24 plate. 1700
85.3/22 bowl. 1601-1800	27.24 jug. 1571-1800	A28559 dish. 1601-1699	A28329 porringer. c. 1660

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