A large size English earthenware combed decorated slipware baking dish or loaf dish circa 1780.

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£5500

Dated: 1780 to 1800 England

This impressive Pottery English earthenware baking dish or loaf dish is combed decorated in a finely trailed brown slip on cream-colored ground. The dish has a pie crust edge and is in very good condition with only minor signs of historical wear and use commensurate with age. This spectacular and highly decorative slipware dish retains a paper label for Sampson and Horne, the famous London ceramic dealers.

Dimensions: 14.5 inches wide, 18.25 inches long

Current Condition: The dish is in unrestored condition with only minor traces of historical wear; otherwise in very good condition.

Provenance: With Sampson Horne London and then private collection London

Literature: Ray Howard presented a paper to the English Ceramic Circle in 1998, illustrating a similar dish. ALSO; Figure 332 in Ronald Cooper reference work illustrates a similar example located in the Stoke on Trent Museum Staffordshire England

£5500    $7425

Description

This impressive Pottery English earthenware baking dish or loaf dish is combed decorated in a finely trailed brown slip on cream-colored ground.
The dish has a pie crust edge and is in very good condition with only minor signs of historical wear and use commensurate with age. This spectacular and highly decorative slipware dish retains a paper label for Sampson and Horne, the famous London ceramic dealers.

Additional information

Dimensions 18.25 × 14.5 in