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.