CIRCA 1630, INITIALLED IL AND MC, IL PROBABLY FOR JOHN LIVERMORE

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A WROTHAM SLIPWARE INITIALLED FOUR-HANDLED TYG
CIRCA 1630, INITIALLED IL AND MC, IL PROBABLY FOR JOHN LIVERMORE
Applied with double loop handles with trailing ropetwists below double bun knops, sprigged with initialled panels and flowerheads in cream on a dark brown ground impressed with scattered star ornament
5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm.) high

Provenance

Ernert Allman.
Thomas Burn, Rous Lench Court; Christie's, London, 29-30 May 1990, lot 71.
With Jonathan Horne, London.

Literature

E.J.B. Kiddell, 'Wrotham Slipware and the Wrotham Brickyard', Transactions, English Ceramic Circle, 1954, Vol. III, pt. 2, p. 114.
S48. The Longridge Catalogue.

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Lot Essay

John Livermore is the earliest of five eminent potters who worked at the Wrotham pottery. Dated pieces range from 1612 to 1639 and Livermore died in 1658.

For another similar tyg by John Livermore from the collection of the National Museum of Liverpool see, Jayne Semple, 'The Potteries of Wrotham Manor 1283-1600', English Ceramic Circle Transactions, Vol. 20, Part II, 2008, p. 423, fig. 2.

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