Lot 181
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A WROTHAM SLIPWARE DATED TWO-HANDLED CUP
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A WROTHAM SLIPWARE DATED TWO-HANDLED CUP

1701, INITIALLED IE, POSSIBLY FOR JOHN EAGLESTONE

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A WROTHAM SLIPWARE DATED TWO-HANDLED CUP
1701, INITIALLED IE, POSSIBLY FOR JOHN EAGLESTONE
Of baluster form with loop handles, decorated in cream-coloured slip on a brown ground finished with a lustrous glaze, dated 1701 among dots and dashes and meandering lines and initialled IE between the handles (small triangular section to rim missing, minor chipping)
4 in. (10.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Anonymous; Sotheby's, London, 1 April 1969, lot 53.
Thomas Burn, Rous Lench Court; Sotheby's, London, 1 July 1986, lot 77.
Literature
Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. I, S53.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

This appears to be the pair to another example made in the same year by the the potter signing I.E, possibly John Eaglestone. Between the years 1687 and 1721 he was responsible for thirty-one examples so far recorded.

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