Tin-glazed Earthenware Sportsman Plate

Tin-glazed Earthenware Sportsman Plate, England, c. 1776, probably London, burnt orange rim to a floral border surrounding a rococo-style floral- and foliate-framed cartouche with central landscape featuring a hunter with long rifle and two hounds above an inscription "STEPHEN; DELL," the reverse with three branch-like motifs surrounding a central date inscribed "1776," dia. 9 in. Provenance: From the Troy Chappell Collection; Ginsburg & Levy. Literature: Illustrated in Ceramics in America-2001 , The Chipstone Foundation, p. 206, fig. 36.