White Salt-glazed Stoneware Transfer Printed Plate

Description:

White Salt-glazed Stoneware Transfer Printed Plate, England, c. 1760-65, octagonal shape with press-molded cartouche, dot and diaper border, brown enamel rim line, and central puce depiction of Aesop's fable The Goat in the Well bordered with two brick red and two gray-black nosegays, point to point dia. 9 1/8 in.

Provenance: Ex Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Lowy collection.

Literature: Illustrated in Ceramics in America - 2001, by Chipstone, p. 203, fig. 30; British Pottery, by Godden, illus. 102b.
Estimate $2,500-3,500

Light stain spot; no evidence of any cracks, chips or restorations. Scattered wear to brown trim line.


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