CIRCA 1660-1685

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A STAFFORDSHIRE SLIPWARE ROYAL ARMORIAL DISH BY WILLIAM TALOR
CIRCA 1660-1685
The pale-ochre ground decorated in light-brown slip, outlined in dark-brown with cream dot-ornament with the royal arms flanked by the lion and unicorn supporters and with the crest of the royal lion flanked by foliage within a trellis-pattern border, the lower part inscribed in dark-brown WILLIAM:TALOR in a rectangular cartouche
17 5/8 in. (44.7 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 7 June 1994, lot 5.
With Jonathan Horne, London.

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. I, S3.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

See Ronald G. Cooper, English Slipware Dishes London, 1984, pp. 78 & 79, where he records twelve other large signed dishes by Talor and notes another armorial example. See the royal armorial example signed 'William Talor', illustrated by Ronald G. Cooper, 'Reflections on English Slipware', The Connoisseur, Vol. 209, no. 840, February 1982, no. 13. Burslem parish records include an entry for the baptism of William Taylor in August, 1624. Another William Taylor, son of Richard and Joan Taylor appears in the Wolstanton register, baptised in December, 1632, see Grigsby, op. cit., p. 52.

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