A STAFFORDSHIRE (JOHN WRIGHT) SLIPWARE DISH

CIRCA 1702, HANLEY OR BURSLEM

Details

A STAFFORDSHIRE (JOHN WRIGHT) SLIPWARE DISH
CIRCA 1702, HANLEY OR BURSLEM
The pale-ochre ground decorated in light and dark-brown slip, edged in dark-brown with cream slip dot-ornament, the center with a stylized pelican and a three-quarter length portrait of the crowned monarch between a flower-head, a leaf and quartered circle ornament, within a trellis-pattern border, the lower part inscribed IOHN:WRIGHT within a seeded panel, beside two quartered circles joined by a lozenge
18 in. (46 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Thomas Burn, Rous Lench Court; Christie's, London, 29-30 May 1990, lot 76.

Literature

Ronald G. Cooper, English Slipware Dishes 1650-80, London, 1968, p. 77.
Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. I, S18.

Exhibited

Leeds, City Art Gallery, The Pottery of Thomas Toft: A Catalogue of Toft Ware and Slip Decorated Pottery, Leeds and Birmingham, 1952, no. 44.

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Lot Essay

The present subject of a monarch and a large 'Pelican in her Piety', likely refers to a Royal Proclamation for the Encouragement of Piety and Virtue that was given at St. James Court on 25 February 1702 by Queen Anne in the first year of her reign.

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