1704

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A STAFFORDSHIRE SLIPWARE DATED JUG
1704
Of globular form with cylindrical neck and loop handle, the pale-yellow slip ground decorated in light brown edged in dark-brown with cream dot-ornament with two birds perched on stylised tulips and flanking a tulip with the initials DS within light-brown and dark-brown edged panels, the neck similarly decorated with the initials DS and the date 1704 beneath a band of circle and lappet ornament to the rim
9 1/8 in. (23.3 cm.) high

Provenance

Thomas Burn, Rous Lench Court; Sotheby's, London, 1 July 1986, lot 81.

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. I, S80.
Leslie B. Grigsby, 'Some Dated English Drinking Vessels with Trailed-Slip Decoration 1612-1752', The Magazine Antiques, Vol. 147, no. 6, May 1995, p. 878, pl. 13.

Exhibited

Leeds and Birmingham, Leeds City Art Gallery, Ronald G. Cooper, The Pottery of Thomas Toft: a Catalogue of Toft Ware and Slip Decorated Pottery, 1952, no. 57.

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Lot Essay

See Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of The Glaisher Collection of Pottery & Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Woodbridge, 1987, Vol. I, no. 255 for a similarly decorated jug, probably by the same hand, inscribed with the initials AS and the date 1704.

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