A STAFFORDSHIRE SLIPWARE DATED AND INITIALED PRESS-MOLDED OCTAGONAL DISH
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A STAFFORDSHIRE SLIPWARE DATED AND INITIALED PRESS-MOLDED OCTAGONAL DISH

DATED 1715, BY JOHN SIMPSON

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A STAFFORDSHIRE SLIPWARE DATED AND INITIALED PRESS-MOLDED OCTAGONAL DISH
DATED 1715, BY JOHN SIMPSON
The pale-ochre ground decorated in raised dark and light-brown slip with a central carnation flanked by radiating pomegranates and fleur-de-lys with the initials 'IS' below, the border with a band of dark-brown dot, circle and line-ornament and the initials and date 'W.L:1715', pierced for hanging
13 ¾ in. (34.9 cm.) wide
Provenance
T.G. Burn, Rous Lench Court; Christie's, London, 29 May 1990, lot 75.
Literature
L.B. Grigsby, The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, vol. 1, London, 2000, p. 93, cat. no. S33.

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Lot Essay


For another dish of this type by John Simpson see B. Rackham, Catalogue of The Glaisher Collection of Pottery & Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Woodbridge, 1987, vol. 1, p. 34, no. 194, pl. 17A. See the example from the collection of Mrs. James de Rothschild, Christie's, London, 17 April 1972, lot 43, where it was attributed to John Simpson, and compare the example illustrated by Sampson and Horne, English Pottery and Related Works of Art, London, 2008, p. 4, no. 08/02.

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