CIRCA 1700-1730, PROBABLY STAFFORDSHIRE

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AN ENGLISH PRESS-MOULDED SLIPWARE DISH
CIRCA 1700-1730, PROBABLY STAFFORDSHIRE
The cream slip ground decorated in raised dark and light-brown slip and edged with cream feather-ornament with a cockerel flanked by a stylised thistle and rose with a diamond ornament below, a tulip between its head and tail, the raised initials TC (?) below, within a tooled serrated rim
11 3/8 in. (28.9 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 27 May 1986, lot 33.

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. I, S22.

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

No other example of this unusual combination of decoration appears to be recorded. It is possible that the rose and thistle may be symbolic of the Act of Union between England and Scotland in 1707, alternatively the thistle may be Jacobite in significance, symbolising hope for the return of the Stuart line to the throne. Leslie B. Grigsby illustrates a slipware dish similarly decorated with a crowned bird before a tulip, see The Henry H. Weldon Collection, English Pottery 1650-1800 London, 1990, p. 160, no. 71.

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