A LONDON DELFT BLUE AND WHITE DISH

This dish is almost identical to examples from the Pickleherring site in Southwark, see Ivor Noël Hume, Early English Delftware from London and Virginia, cl. pl. opposite p. 84 and a discussion of these wares, pp. 46-47. Jonathan Horne notes that a large charger of this type was found in a rubbish pit at Kingsmill plantation in James City County, Virginia, having been taken there by the early settlers. For a strikingly similar dish, see Christie's; London, 16 November 1992, lot 2. Also see John C. Austin, British Delft at Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1994, p. 130, no. 158.