Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 2 - 10th November 2021
Lot 490
A RARE EARLY GEORGE III STAFFORDSHIRE SLIPWARE POTTERY POSSET CUP
Estimate £3,000 - £5,000 | Hammer £7500
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Description
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.