CIRCA 1695

Details

A STAFFORDSHIRE SLIPWARE INSCRIBED AND DATED TWO-HANDLED CUP
CIRCA 1695
Of squat baluster form with low loop handles, the dark-brown ground decorated in cream slip with stylised geometric X, stamped flowerhead and dot-ornament beneath the inscription RICHARD MARE 169
4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm.) high

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 9 January 1973, lot 8.
Thomas Burn, Rous Lench Court; Sotheby's London, 1 July 1986, lot 74.

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. I, S72.

Special notice

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

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Lot Essay

See Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of The Glaisher Collection of Pottery & Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Woodbridge, 1987, Vol. I, p. 43, no. 265, pl. 26A for another cup inscribed 'Richard Mare' and dated '1696' from the Billson Collection; Sotheby's, London, 21 December 1908, lot 33.

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