Lot 1016
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A STAFFORDSHIRE SLIPWARE ROYAL DOUBLE PORTRAIT DISH BY THOMAS SANFORD
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A STAFFORDSHIRE SLIPWARE ROYAL DOUBLE PORTRAIT DISH BY THOMAS SANFORD

CIRCA 1689-1695

Details
A STAFFORDSHIRE SLIPWARE ROYAL DOUBLE PORTRAIT DISH BY THOMAS SANFORD
CIRCA 1689-1695
The pale-ochre ground decorated in dark and light-brown slip edged in dark-brown slip with cream dot-ornament with crowned full-length portraits of King William and Queen Mary with the initials W/M between and a tulip above flanked by stylised foliate-ornament, the flat rim with counterchanged light and dark-brown slip trellis-pattern and inscribed THOMAS SANFORD in dark-brown slip below
16¾ in. (42.5 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 1 March 1993, lot 356.
With Jonathan Horne, London.
Literature
Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue Vol. I, S6.
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

Although the name Thomas Sanford does not appear in the literature of ceramics, the parish records of Wolstanton, Staffordshire record the marriage of a man of this name is 1687. A Moses Sanford was recorded as maker of 'Milk Pans and Small Wares' in Hanley in 1710-1715.

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