CIRCA 1710-1735

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A STAFFORDSHIRE PRESS-MOULDED SLIPWARE 'SUN TREE' DISH BY SAMUEL MALKIN
CIRCA 1710-1735
The pale-ochre ground decorated in raised dark and light-brown slip with a stylised sunflower tree, birds perched on tulip branches facing the centre and a rectangular cartouche moulded with the initials SM within a trellis-pattern border and tooled serrated rim
17¼ in. (43.5 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 23 October 1979, lot 61.
With Christopher Sykes Antiques.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 20 October 1993, lot 9.

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. I, S16.

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

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Lot Essay

Ronald G. Cooper, English Slipware Dishes, London, 1984, pp. 104 & 105 lists twenty-two signed dishes by Samuel Malkin (1668-1741) where he illustrates the sun tree dish in the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh (pl. 252) and the example in the Burnap Collection, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri. The closest, however, to the present example is that at Colonial Williamsburg, see Leslie B. Grigsby, English Slip-Decorated Earthenware at Williamsburg, Williamsburg, 1993, p. 43, pl. 50.

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