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An English slipware model of a cradle, probably Staffordshire, circa 1690-1700 image 1
An English slipware model of a cradle, probably Staffordshire, circa 1690-1700 image 2
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Lot 14

An English slipware model of a cradle, probably Staffordshire, circa 1690-1700

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

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An English slipware model of a cradle, probably Staffordshire, circa 1690-1700

Of slab construction with two rockers, the sides and triangular hood applied with globular knobs, the dark brown ground trailed in cream-coloured slip with feathered tulips within dotted borders, the initials 'ID' trailed on the hood, 27.3cm long

Footnotes

Provenance:
Sotheby's sale 27 May 1975, lot 4
Kahn Collection
David E. Zeitlin
With Mark and Marjorie Allen
Syd Levethan, Longridge Collection, Christie's sale 25 May 2011, lot 141

Model cradles are believed to have been intended to commemorate weddings or births. A number are illustrated by David Barker and Steve Crompton, Slipware in the Collection of the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery p.99-102. Another is illustrated by Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware (2000), fig.S95 and is dated 1708.

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