CIRCA 1690-1705

Details

A STAFFORDSHIRE SLIPWARE NIGHT-LIGHT
CIRCA 1690-1705
Of shallow cylindrical form and with an ochre ground, the slightly domed top pierced with circular apertures edged with dark-brown slip with cream dot-ornament divided by olive-green foliate panels, the side pierced with square apertures flanked by oval slip medallions in olive-green outlined in dark-brown with cream dot-ornament, the interior with an integral central shallow circular dish
6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm.) diam.

Provenance

With D.M. & P. Manheim.
Marjorie Wiggin Prescott; Christie's, New York, 6 March 1981, lot 5.

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. I, S93.

Exhibited

San Fransisco, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Uncommon Clay, 1972.

Special notice

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

If you wish to view the condition report of this lot, please sign in to your account.

View condition report

Lot Essay

See Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of The Glaisher Collection of Pottery & Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Woodbridge, 1987, Vol. I, p. 46, pl. 25D, no. 290 for a similar example formerly in the Solon Collection. For the only dated example of 1694, ibid., p. 44, no.274; both are described as egg-stands.

More from Syd Levethan: The Longridge Collection

View All