Massive English slipware oblong baking or loaf dish with fine combed decoration late 18th century

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£6550

Dated: 1780 to 1800 English

This impressive, large-scale 18th-century English pottery earthenware baking dish or loaf dish is combed-decorated in a finely trailed brown slip on a cream-colored ground. The dish has a pie-crust edge and is in good condition, with only minor signs of historical wear and use commensurate with age.  

Dimensions: 16.5 inches high 20.5 inches long

Current Condition: Good condition in accord with age.

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. Refer SLIPWARE Collection, The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery page 163 by David Barker and Steve Crompton published 2007

£6550    $8842

Description

This impressive, large-scale 18th-century English pottery earthenware baking dish or loaf dish is combed-decorated in a finely trailed brown slip on a cream-colored ground. The dish has a pie-crust edge and is in good condition, with only minor signs of historical wear and use commensurate with age.

 

Additional information

Dimensions 20.5 × 16.5 in