Antique English slipware comb decorated baking or loaf dish 18th century

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£5000

Dated: 1780 to 1800 English

This large scale 18th century 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.

Dimensions: 16 inches high 20.5 inches long

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

£5000    $6750

Description

This large scale 18th century 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.

Additional information

Dimensions 20.5 × 16 in