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Lot 13

An English slipware tulip dish, probably Staffordshire, circa 1680

Amended
31 January 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£7,000 - £10,000

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An English slipware tulip dish, probably Staffordshire, circa 1680

with trailed cream-coloured slip decoration on a red ground, the centre with tulips and leaves within a band of dashes, the border with more tulip flowers and leaves, a dotted border inside the rim, 38cm diam

Footnotes

Provenance:
By repute from Chirk Castle
With Garry Atkins

Exhibited:
The Merchant's House, Marlborough, Wiltshire, 2010-2018

A similar style of decoration is found on delftware chargers, the border of dashes around the cavetto on this example copying the blue dashes found on delftware examples.

According to tradition, a number of similar dishes were in use at Chirk Castle. The present lot was discovered in the house of a former servant at the castle and it was suggested the dish may have been carried out as a platter for leftovers from the kitchen.

Saleroom notices

Chirk Castle lies less than twenty miles from Buckley. Therefore a north Wales origin is likely for this dish.

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