Lot Essay
Cf. The Frank P. and Harriet C. Burnap Collection of English Pottery, Nelson Atkins Museum #53
Property from the Estate of
JOAN and HERBERT KLEE
A STAFFORDSHIRE SLIPWARE DISH
Details
A STAFFORDSHIRE SLIPWARE DISH
CIRCA 1710, BY SAMUEL MALKIN
The cream slip ground with St. George in dark and pale-brown slip astride a dark-brown charger slaying the dark and pale-brown slip winged dragon, inscribed in raised script St George & Dragon within an arched-rectangular brown slip surround, surmounted by pale-brown scrolls and a cross, signed S*M in raised letters beneath the horse, within a piecrust-moulded rim--14in. (35.5cm.) diam.
CIRCA 1710, BY SAMUEL MALKIN
The cream slip ground with St. George in dark and pale-brown slip astride a dark-brown charger slaying the dark and pale-brown slip winged dragon, inscribed in raised script St George & Dragon within an arched-rectangular brown slip surround, surmounted by pale-brown scrolls and a cross, signed S*M in raised letters beneath the horse, within a piecrust-moulded rim--14in. (35.5cm.) diam.
Provenance
Frank Falkner Collection
Literature
Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition Catalogue, Early English Earthenware, 1914, ill. pl. XXII