A LONDON DELFT WHITE 'CURLES' SALT

Decorated salts of this metalwork form are also known, including a blue and white 1675 dated example in the Longridge Collection, see Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Collection, Vol. II, D208. Shards of white examples have been excavated at Jamestown, Virginia. See John C. Austin, British Delft at Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1994, p. 189, no. 370 for a white example of this form in the collection of Colonial Williamsburg. Also see p. 19, fig. 17 for the example at the New Haven Historical Society known to have been owned by James Heaton of New Haven, Connecticut who died in 1712. For the white example in the British Museum and a discussion of the Jamestown excavation, see Aileen Dawson, The British Museum - English & Irish Delftware 1570-1840, London, 2010, p. 232, no. 102.