£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
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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.
