Editing English delftware (section)

==Early wares==
An English delftware jug has been found in [[East Malling]], Kent, with a silver mount [[hallmark]]ed 1550, which is presumed to be the earliest date of manufacture.  (Malling jugs may be seen in the [[Museum of London]] and the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]].)

[[John Stow]]'s ''Survey of London'' (1598) records the arrival in 1567 of two Antwerp potters, Jasper Andries and Jacob Jansen, in [[Norwich]], where they made "Gally Paving Tiles, and vessels for Apothecaries and others, very artificially".<ref name=caiger>Caiger-Smith, Alan, ''Tin-glazed Pottery in Europe and the Islamic World: The Tradition of 1000 Years in Maiolica, Faience and Delftware'', Faber and Faber, 1973, {{ISBN|0-571-09349-3}}</ref> In 1570 Jansen applied to [[Queen Elizabeth I]] for the sole right to practice "galleypotting" in London and soon set up a workshop at [[Aldgate]] to the east of the city.  There were already other Flemish potters in London, two of them in [[Southwark]] recorded in 1571 as "painters of pottes".<ref name=caiger/><ref>{{Cite book|title=London's delftware industry: the tin-glazed pottery industries of Southwark and Lambeth.|last=Tyler|first=Kieron|display-authors=etal|publisher=MoLAS, London|year=2008|isbn=978-1-901992-76-2}}</ref>

The earliest known piece with an English inscription is a dish dated 1600 in the [[Museum of London]].  It is painted in blue, purple, green, orange and yellow and depicts the Tower of London and Old London Bridge, surrounded by the words, "THE ROSE IS RED THE LEAVES ARE GRENE GOD SAVE ELIZABETH OUR QUEENE" and an Italianate border of masks and leaves.  The rim is decorated with dashes of blue and can be considered the first in series of large decorated dishes so painted and called blue-dash chargers.