Live Auction 2515Syd Levethan: The Longridge Collection
AN ENGLISH SLIPWARE SWEETMEAT DISH
Lot 40

AN ENGLISH SLIPWARE SWEETMEAT DISH

CIRCA 1680-1720, PROBABLY STAFFORDSHIRE

Closed24 January 2011

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AN ENGLISH SLIPWARE SWEETMEAT DISH
CIRCA 1680-1720, PROBABLY STAFFORDSHIRE
Formed from four conjoined lobed wells issuing four foliate handles trailed in dark-brown slip
8¼ in. (21 cm.) wide

With Jonathan Horne, London, 1989.

Specialist note

See Leslie Grigsby, English Slip-Decorated Earthenware at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1993, p.39, fig. 43 for a variant, the faces similar to those on lot 5, applied at the rim between each of the five radiating teardrop-form lobes.