1712

Details

A STAFFORDSHIRE PRESS-MOULDED SLIPWARE INSCRIBED AND DATED DISH BY SAMUEL MALKIN
1712
The cream ground moulded and decorated in dark and light-brown slip, the centre with a clock dial, the hand pointing to XII, the centre of the dial inscribed Sam Malkin/The Maker/In Burs (reversed) la/m flanking the date 17 within a rectangular cartouche with four cherub's head spandrels to the corners in counter-changed light and dark slip within a rouletted square cartouche flanked by moulded trefoil foliage, the lower part inscribed in raised script Thev:Chriztian:dyal:or:a/Cheap:Watch:for:a:poor:/Man within a tooled serrated rim
14¼ in. (36 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Mrs I.M. Morgan; Christie's, London, 18 November 1974, lot 31.
With Tilley & Co.
Thomas Burn, Rous Lench Court; Christie's, London, 29 May 1990, lot 79.

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. I, S11.
Leslie B. Grigsby, 'Dated English Defltware and Slipware in the Longridge Collection', The Magazine Antiques, 155, June 1999, p. 883, pl. 14.
Hugo Morley-Fletcher and Roger McIlroy, Christie's Pictorial History of European Pottery, Oxford, 1984, p. 263, no. 5.
Ronald G. Cooper, 'Reflections on English Slipware', The Connoisseur, Vol. 209, no. 840, February 1982, no. 4.
Hugh Tait, 'Samuel Malkin and the 'SM' dishes', Apollo, January-February 1957.

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Lot Essay

The number 17 in the date aperture of the clock dial beneath the hour hand pointing to XII indicates the date 1712.

This dish is apparently the only intact example, the incomplete example from the collection of the late Ernest Allman, now in the British Museum (1956.7-5.1) having part of the lower inscription replaced, is illustrated by Ronald G. Cooper, English Slipware Dishes, London, 1984, pl. 250. Fragments of similar inscriptions have been excavated at Massey Square at Burslem and are illustrated by Grigsby ibid..

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