$2,337
Three White Salt-glazed Stoneware Dishes, England, mid-18th century, probably Staffordshire, each press-molded, a plate with scalloped rim and border decorated with moths, flowers, foliage, and basketweave, dia. 9 1/8; a dessert plate allover punctuated with dotted ground, scalloped rim, and border decorated with fruit hanging from interwoven vines, dia. 8 5/8; and a deep dish with pierced panel border to an alternating basket, star and diaper pattern framed within scrolled vines, dia. 9 3/4 in. Provenance: Moth plate ex Price Glover; fruit plate ex Ginsburg & Levy; deep dish ex Stair. Literature: Moth plate with identical illustrated in Salt-glazed Stoneware in Early America , by Skerry and Hood, p. 237, pattern Q1; fruit plate with identical illustrated in If These Pots Could Talk , by N. Hume, fig. IX.32(a); deep dish with identical illustrated in A Collector's History of English Pottery , by Lewis, p. 76.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2016-04-08
