- Also known as
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Pickleherring Pottery
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primary name: Pickleherring Pottery
- Details
- individual; manufacturer/factory; British
- Life dates
- c.1618-1723
- Address
- Pickleherring Pottery, St Olave's Parish, Southwark
- Biography
- The Pickleherring Pottery in Southwark was founded by Christian Wilhelm in around 1618 and continued to operate for about a century. After Wilhelm's death in 1630, the pottery passed to his son-in-law, Thomas Townsend (1630-c1645); then through the hands of Richard Newnham (c.1645-c.1684), probably Moses Johnson (c.1685-1695), John Robins (1695-1699) and Cleophas Wood (1700-1708); finally in 1708 it came under the management of Richard Grove, who with James Robins made the move to larger premises at Horsely Down between 1714 and 1723. Tin-glazed earthenware products associated with the Pickleherring Pottery include paving or floor tiles painted in polychrome with animals such as a fox or a camel or geometric patterns; wine bottles, posset pots, tankards and dishes, some decorated in blue with chequer pattern or 'bird on rock' designs; plates, mugs and cups; drug jars and ointment pots, some decorated with geometric designs in blue, manganese and yellow; bleeding bowls or porringers; some elaborately decorated 17thC chargers; salts and vases; candlesticks and chamber pots; and even some fragmentary figurines.
- Bibliography
- H. Tait 'Southwark (alias Lambeth) Delftware and the Potter Christian Wilhelm', Connoisseur, I Vol.CXLVI no.587, Aug.1960, pp 36-42, and II Vol CXLVII no.591, Feb.1961, pp 22-29.
I. Davies 'Seventeenth-Century Delftware Potters in St Olave's Parish, Southwark', Surrey Archaeological Collections, Vol LXVI, 1969, pp 11-31.
R. Edwards 'London Potters circa 1570-1710', Journal of Ceramic History No.6 (Stafford, 1974), pp 10-12.
I. Noël Hume 'Early English Delftware from London and Virginia' (Colonial Williamsburg, 1977).
F. Britton 'London Delftware' (London, 1987) pp 34-6.
K.Tyler, I. Betts and R. Stephenson 'London's delftware industry: the tin-glazed pottery industries of Southwark and Lambeth' (London, 2008) pp 26-59.
