Description
An English earthenware baking dish with a dark brown ground and a fine, trailing, cream-coloured slip in a stylised rendition of a butterfly.
English pottery slipware baking dish or loaf dish oblong form slip-trailed with stylized image of a butterfly 18th century
£5850
Dated: 1780 English
An English earthenware baking dish with a dark brown ground and a fine, trailing, cream-coloured slip in a stylised rendition of a butterfly.
Dimensions: 14.75 inches high 16.5 inches long
Current Condition: Good condition with wear in accord with age.
Provenance: Previously with Gary Atkins the London based Pottery dealer and then ; The collection of the late potter Peter Smith of Bojewyan Pottery in West Cornwall. Fellow of the Craftsman Potters Association, member of Newlyn Society of Artists and later chairman of Newlyn Gallery.
Literature: Slipware Collection in the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery. Copywright 2007 the Stoke on Trent Museums
£5850 $7897
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