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Wrotham, n.|ˈruːtəm|
The name of a small town in Kent, used attrib. (and occas. absol.) to designate pottery made there in the 17th and 18th centuries, being chiefly red-clay slipware with a yellowish lead glaze. Freq. as Wrotham ware.
1884A. H. Church Eng. Earthenware iii. 23 Wrotham ware... Mr Willett's Wrotham tyg.., with its applied medallions and slip decorations, lends support to the view that the Jermyn Street specimen..may also be Wrotham. 1923J. F. Blacker ABC of Collecting Old Eng. Pott. 92 (caption) Wrotham dish, 1699—incised pattern. 1935[see slipware n.]. 1957Mankowitz & Haggar Conc. Encycl. Eng. Pott. & Porc. 248/2 Representative collections of Wrotham and similar wares are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, British Museum,..some pieces bearing the name Wrotham. 1972Country Life 6 Apr. 872/3 Its neighbour..was another Wrotham piece, also by George Richardson..—a tyg, a nice old-fashioned word for mug the use of which has survived..in describing these Wrotham wares. |