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Lot Essay
The inscription found here on what appears to be an arched altar screen references the New Testament warning in the book of Luke verse 17 line 32 and reminds us to be obey the word of God or suffer the consequences of Lot's wife, transformation into a pillar of salt.
For a similar example formerly in Louis Solon's collection (sold in the Solon Estate Sale, Hanley, November 1912 and now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, see Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of The Glaisher Collection of Pottery & Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Woodbridge, 1987, Vol. I, p. 35, no. 201 and pl.18a. For an article by Solon illustrating the dish, see The Coinnoisseur, Vol. II, 1902, p. 80, pl. XX. For an example at Colonial Williamsburg, see Leslie Grigsby, English Slip-Decorated Earthenware at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1993, p. 42 and the cover illustration.
Supportive of the current attribution, fragments have been found at several excavation sites, including Massey Square, Burslem, the location associated with Samuel Malkin's factory, Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Hanley, Stoke-en-Trent, (Archaeology Collection, no. 200P39).
For a similar example formerly in Louis Solon's collection (sold in the Solon Estate Sale, Hanley, November 1912 and now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, see Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of The Glaisher Collection of Pottery & Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Woodbridge, 1987, Vol. I, p. 35, no. 201 and pl.18a. For an article by Solon illustrating the dish, see The Coinnoisseur, Vol. II, 1902, p. 80, pl. XX. For an example at Colonial Williamsburg, see Leslie Grigsby, English Slip-Decorated Earthenware at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1993, p. 42 and the cover illustration.
Supportive of the current attribution, fragments have been found at several excavation sites, including Massey Square, Burslem, the location associated with Samuel Malkin's factory, Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Hanley, Stoke-en-Trent, (Archaeology Collection, no. 200P39).