细节
AN ENGLISH STONEWARE INSCRIBED AND DATED MOTTLED-BROWN GROUND FOOTED CUP AND COVER
1703, PROBABLY WILTSHIRE
The red clay enriched overall in mottled-brown beneath a lead glaze, of tapering form with four ribbed strap handles and conical cover, the rim of the bowl set with an applied whistle and incised BE/MERY/ALL/DRINK/OF/THE/BEST/DRINK/AND/LEEF/THE/SMAL, above a serrated band and the date 1703, one side incised with a square panel issuing scrolls, the reverse with three stylized trees, the cover incised with similar trees issuing flowers, on a spreading conical foot, within tooled and serrated bands
13 in. (33 cm.) high (2)
来源
James Whitbread Lee Glaisher.
Frances L. Dickson and thence by descent to the present owner.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 3 October 1984, lot 446.
With Jonathan Horne, London, 1985.
出版
Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. I, S74.