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Lot Essay
The present dish is one of two known examples and the only one in private hands.
The other, an undated example with a slightly variant inscription, is illustrated in Robert Lockhart Hobson, Catalogue of the Collection of English Pottery in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum, London, 1903, p. 111, no. D40; by Hugh Tait, 'Samuel Malkin and the 'SM' Slipware dishes.', Apollo, 65, no. 383, January 1957, part I, p. 5, fig. 6; and Ronald G. Cooper, English Slipware Dishes 1650-1850, London, 1968, p. 105.
The other, an undated example with a slightly variant inscription, is illustrated in Robert Lockhart Hobson, Catalogue of the Collection of English Pottery in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum, London, 1903, p. 111, no. D40; by Hugh Tait, 'Samuel Malkin and the 'SM' Slipware dishes.', Apollo, 65, no. 383, January 1957, part I, p. 5, fig. 6; and Ronald G. Cooper, English Slipware Dishes 1650-1850, London, 1968, p. 105.