A STAFFORDSHIRE SLIPWARE ROYAL ARMORIAL DEEP CHARGER BY WILLIAM TALOR, the cream slip ground decorated in light and dark-brown slips and enriched with cream slip dots with the Royal Arms with lion and unicorn supporters and a stylised fleur-de-lys below, the border with light and dark-brown slip hatch-pattern and with the name WILLIAM:TALOR in dark-brown slip (crack at 3 o'clock extending up towards 11 o'clock, some chipping to underside of rim), circa 1685

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A STAFFORDSHIRE SLIPWARE ROYAL ARMORIAL DEEP CHARGER BY WILLIAM TALOR, the cream slip ground decorated in light and dark-brown slips and enriched with cream slip dots with the Royal Arms with lion and unicorn supporters and a stylised fleur-de-lys below, the border with light and dark-brown slip hatch-pattern and with the name WILLIAM:TALOR in dark-brown slip (crack at 3 o'clock extending up towards 11 o'clock, some chipping to underside of rim), circa 1685
44cm. diam.

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Perhaps made to celebrate the coronation of James II in 1685

Ronald G. Cooper, English Slipware Dishes 1650-1850, pp. 78-79 records William Talor's name on twelve other large dishes and notes a further Royal Armorial dish inscribed WILLIAM TALLOR of similar size to the present example, in the Brighton Museum

There appear to be two contenders for the maker of these dishes, William Talor, baptised August 1624 at Burslem and William Talor, baptised December 1632 at Wolstanton

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