
John Sandon
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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.