Lot Details
Lot 138
Staffordshire Slipware Cup
Circa 1690-1710
Of bell shape with small loop handle, the surface decorated with combed dark brown slip on a white slip ground beneath a honey-yellow lead glaze, the unglazed foot rim revealing a reddish-buff colored earthenware.
Height 3 inches, width overall 4 1/8 inches.
Provenance:
Sotheby's, London, 17 February 1970, lot 87.
Exhibition Literature:
The English Ceramic Circle, 1927-1948: English Pottery and Porcelain. Commemorative Catalogue of an Exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 5 May - 20 June1948, no. 41. (paper label retained).
For a similar example, see Christie's, London 7 October 1996, lot 144. Also see, Syd Levethan: The Longridge Collection, Christie's, London, 3 November 2011, lot 57.
C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell
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