Lot Essay
See the example dated 1697 and intialled BB and RF in the collection of Colonial Williamsburg, see Leslie Grigsby, English Slip-Decorated Earthenware at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1993, p. 50, no. 57.
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1697
Details
A STAFFORDSHIRE SLIPWARE DATED TWO-HANDLED BRAGGET-POT
1697
Of broad cylindrical form, applied with loop handles, the cream-coloured ground decorated in dark-brown slip enclosing lighter-brown slip, enriched with cream slip-ornament, the border inscribed THE·BEST·IS·NOT·TOO·GOOD·FOR·YOV, dated and initialled 1697 RF, above tulips flanked by the initials IB and WS (faint crack to rim, one handle cracked and restored to lower terminal)
The cup 5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) high; about 11¼ in. (28.5 cm.) wide across the handles
1697
Of broad cylindrical form, applied with loop handles, the cream-coloured ground decorated in dark-brown slip enclosing lighter-brown slip, enriched with cream slip-ornament, the border inscribed THE·BEST·IS·NOT·TOO·GOOD·FOR·YOV, dated and initialled 1697 RF, above tulips flanked by the initials IB and WS (faint crack to rim, one handle cracked and restored to lower terminal)
The cup 5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) high; about 11¼ in. (28.5 cm.) wide across the handles
Literature
Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. I, S68.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.
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