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A STAFFORDSHIRE (SAMUEL MALKIN) PRESS-MOLDED SLIPWARE INSCRIBED AND DATED DISH
Lot 38

A STAFFORDSHIRE (SAMUEL MALKIN) PRESS-MOLDED SLIPWARE INSCRIBED AND DATED DISH

1726, BURSLEM

Closed24 January 2011

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A STAFFORDSHIRE (SAMUEL MALKIN) PRESS-MOLDED SLIPWARE INSCRIBED AND DATED DISH
1726, BURSLEM
The pale-ochre ground decorated in raised dark and light brown slip with a figure standing between compass points and stylized tulips below the initials SM and flower-head roundels inscribed and dated in raised script, the left hand roundel inscribed Keep/within/Compas:and/you:shall/be:sure/1726, the right hand roundel inscribed To/guoyd:/many:tro.ubless·which/others:in/dure/1726, within a tooled and serrated rim
14 in. (35.6 cm.) diameter

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 16 November 1992, lot 1.

Specialist note

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.