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{{Short description|Tin-glazed pottery}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} [[File:BLW Dish (2).jpg|thumb|English delftware dish, 1638, probably by Richard Irons, Southwark, London ([[Victoria and Albert Museum]])]] [[File:Wine Bottle, dated 1645, London, tin-glazed earthenware - Gardiner Museum, Toronto - DSC01242.JPG |thumb|Wine Bottle, dated 1645, London]] '''English delftware''' is [[tin-glazed pottery]] made in Britain and Ireland between about 1550 and the late 18th century. The main centres of production were [[London]], [[Bristol]] and [[Liverpool]] with smaller centres at [[Lancaster, Lancashire|Lancaster]], [[Wincanton]], [[Glasgow]] and [[Dublin]]. English tin-glazed pottery was called "galleyware" or "galliware" and its makers "gallypotters" until the early 18th century; it was given the name [[delftware]] after the tin-glazed pottery from the Netherlands.<ref name=garner>Garner, F.H., ''English Delftware'', Faber and Faber, 1948</ref><ref name=carnegy>Carnegy, Daphne, ''Tin-glazed Earthenware'', A&C Black/Chilton Book Company, 1993, {{ISBN|0-7136-3718-8}}</ref> Many everyday wares were made: tiles, mugs, drug jars, dishes, wine bottles, [[posset]] pots, salt pots, candlesticks, fuddling cups (that is, ale mugs joined in groups of three, four or five with connecting holes to confuse the drinker), puzzle jugs (similar to fuddling cups), barber's bowls, pill slabs, bleeding bowls, [[porringer]]s and [[flower brick]]s. Humble undecorated items included chamberpots, colanders and small disposable ointment pots (gallipots), dispensed by [[apothecaries]]. Large decorative dishes, often called chargers, were popular, and included much of the most ambitious painting, often stretching the artists to the edge of their capabilities, and beyond.
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