Lot 356
356
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A STAFFORDSHIRE SLIPWARE ROYALIST DEEP CHARGER INSCRIBED THOMAS SANFORD, the cream slip ground decorated in light and dark-brown slips and enriched with cream slip dots with standing figures of Queen Mary and King William III, the Queen holding a stylised tulip and a frond, with the initials W M between and flanked by stylised foliage, the border with light and dark-brown slip hatch-pattern and with the name THOMAS:SANFORD in dark-brown slip (rim repaired between 1 o'clock and 3 o'clock, chips to rim and edge of well, the reverse extensively pitted), circa 1690

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A STAFFORDSHIRE SLIPWARE ROYALIST DEEP CHARGER INSCRIBED THOMAS SANFORD, the cream slip ground decorated in light and dark-brown slips and enriched with cream slip dots with standing figures of Queen Mary and King William III, the Queen holding a stylised tulip and a frond, with the initials W M between and flanked by stylised foliage, the border with light and dark-brown slip hatch-pattern and with the name THOMAS:SANFORD in dark-brown slip (rim repaired between 1 o'clock and 3 o'clock, chips to rim and edge of well, the reverse extensively pitted), circa 1690
42.5cm. diam.

Lot Essay

Although the name 'Thomas Sanford' does not appear to be recorded in Ceramic literature, trace has been made by the Hanley Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, of a Thomas Sanford in the Wolstanton Parish who was married in 1687, and who could perhaps have been the maker of this charger

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