AN ENGLISH PRESS-MOLDED SLIPWARE DISH

FIRST HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY STAFFORDSHIRE

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AN ENGLISH PRESS-MOLDED SLIPWARE DISH
FIRST HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY STAFFORDSHIRE
The cream-slip ground decorated in dark and light brown slip with a horseman in James I period dress, wielding a pistol and a sword, the surround molded with flower-head and dot ornament within a rouletted cell-pattern band and tooled serrated rim, the border twice pierced
9½ in. (24.1 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Thomas Burn, Rous Lench Court; Christie's, London, 29-30 May 1990, lot 73.

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. I, S8.

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Lot Essay

For an example with the initial 'WA' (?), see Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of The Glaisher Collection of Pottery & Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Woodbridge, 1987, Vol. I, p. 33, no. 191, pl. 16A and no. 192 for an example without initials. Also compare the example formerly in the C.E. Barber Collection and illustrated in Ross E. Taggart, The Frank P. and Harriet C. Burnap Collection of English Pottery in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, 1967, p. 25, no. 12.

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