Lot Essay
For another example see Ross E. Taggart, The Frank P. and Harriet C. Burnap Collection of English Pottery in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, 1967, p. 32, no. 53.
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CIRCA 1730
Details
A STAFFORDSHIRE PRESS-MOULDED SLIPWARE SAINT GEORGE AND THE DRAGON DISH BY SAMUEL MALKIN
CIRCA 1730
With raised dark and light-brown slip decoration showing St. George crowned and slaying the dragon with a lance, an inscribed escutheon above the horse's flank, the raised initials SM beneath the horse, within a tooled serrated rim
14¼ in. (36.2 cm.) diam.
CIRCA 1730
With raised dark and light-brown slip decoration showing St. George crowned and slaying the dragon with a lance, an inscribed escutheon above the horse's flank, the raised initials SM beneath the horse, within a tooled serrated rim
14¼ in. (36.2 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Frank Falkner, sale Sotheby's, 29 May 1956, lot 70.
Mrs. S. Pitt-Rivers, Farnham Museum, Dorset.
Mrs. S. Pitt-Rivers, Farnham Museum, Dorset.
Literature
Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. I, S14.
Ronald G. Cooper, English Slipware Dishes, London, 1984, pl. 256.
Ronald G. Cooper, English Slipware Dishes, London, 1984, pl. 256.
Exhibited
London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Catalogue of a Collection of Early English Earthenware and other Works of Art, 1913, p. 43, Case C, no. 16.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.
Sale room notice
Please note that this dish was almost certainly made at Lazencroft near Leeds, recent excavations on the factory site have revealed similar shards; documentary evidence places Malkin in Lazencroft in the 1740s. Christie's are most grateful to Roger Massey of the English Ceramics Circle for this information.
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