A STAFFORDSHIRE SLIPWARE INSCRIBED DISH

CIRCA 1695-1720, HANLEY, SIGNED JOSEPH GLASS

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A STAFFORDSHIRE SLIPWARE INSCRIBED DISH
CIRCA 1695-1720, HANLEY, SIGNED JOSEPH GLASS
The pale-ochre ground decorated in cream, light and dark brown slips with a magnificent bird, its wing raised, surrounded by foliage and flower-heads, the well with a band of interlocking ovolo-ornament within a trellis-pattern border, the lower part inscribed IOSEPH:GLASS within a rectangular cartouche
18 3/8 in. (47.3 cm.) diameter

Literature

J. Horne, A Collection of Early English Pottery, London, 1997, Part XVII, no. 483.
L. B. Grigsby, The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, vol. 1, London, 2000, pp. 76-77, no. S17.

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Lot Essay

Josiah Wedgwood's list of Staffordshire potteries active around 1700-15 includes a Joseph Glass of Hanley who made "Clowdy and a sort of dishes painted with different coloured slops." For a dated cradle of 1703 see B. Rackham, Catalogue of The Glaisher Collection of Pottery & Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, vol. 1, Woodbridge, 1987, no. 345, pl. 23F. See ibid. no. 215, pl. 19C for a 'Pelican in its Piety' dish by Ralph Simpson with a similar bird. No other dish by Joseph Glass appears to be recorded.

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