A Staffordshire slipware Royal equestrian press-moulded shallow dish
A Staffordshire slipware Royal equestrian press-moulded shallow dish

CIRCA 1715, PERHAPS SAMUEL MALKIN

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A Staffordshire slipware Royal equestrian press-moulded shallow dish
Circa 1715, perhaps Samuel Malkin
The pale-brown body covered in a rich cream crackled slip, and with George I astride a stallion to the right, decorated in dark-brown slip with light-brown details to his peruque, saddle-cloth, bridle, and horse's ears, mane and muzzle, and outlined with raised rouletted decoration, above a dark-brown slip stylised foliate crown, the raised initials GR flanking the Monarch's head, within a piecrust rim
13 in. (34.5 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Formerly in the collection of the Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham, Dorset.

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