with a small amount of colouring oxide, with decoration over it in white tin-glaze. The development of creamware, a very white and tough earthenware, by Wedgwood and other North Staffordshire potters spelled the end of English delftware. Decoration could be applied to the bisque ware from printed transfers, white pottery could be produced with a clear lead-glaze, and the result was pottery lighter and more durable than tin-glazed ware. The north Staffordshire potteries also introduced new wares and industrial techniques that disadvantaged the delftware makers, and by the 19th century tin-glazed earthenware almost died out until its revival in the form of art pottery a hundred years later. Collections There are good examples of English delftware in the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Museum, the Ashmolean Museum and the Fitzwilliam Museum. References Poole, Julia, English Pottery (Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks), 1995, Cambridge University Press, Dawson, Aileen, English & Irish Delftware, 1570-1840, 2010, London: British Museum, delftware delftware