A RARE EARLY GEORGE III STAFFORDSHIRE SLIPWARE POTTERY POSSET CUP

A RARE EARLY GEORGE III STAFFORDSHIRE SLIPWARE POTTERY POSSET CUP

DATED '1761'

with an everted rim and twin loop handles, the body with a chequerboard ground and with panels of leaf motifs, signed with initials 'BK'

18cm high, 24cm diameter

Provenance

Jonathan Horne Antiques Ltd.

Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.

Catalogue Note

See 'The Burnap Collection of English Pottery in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art', p.20, fig.30 for a very similar example dated '1759' and inscribed with initials 'BR'. The Burnap example was formerly in John Henry Taylor Revelstoke Collection.