Two White Salt-glazed Stoneware Items

Description:

Two White Salt-glazed Stoneware Items, England, c. 1760, probably Staffordshire, each press-molded, a fruit mold formed as a curled leaf, the interior with a raspberry within a fleshy leaf, lg. 5; and a pickle tray of oval form with serpentine curved rim decorated with flowers and surrounding a central Asian figural landscape, lg. 4 3/4 in.

Provenance: The Troy Chappell Collection. Mold ex collection Wynn Sayman; tray ex collection Price Glover.

Literature: Fruit mold with identical illustrated in Staffordshire Saltglazed Stoneware, by Mountford, illus. 35-B; pickle tray with identical illustrated in A Passion for Pottery, by Williams and Halfpenny, illus. 42.
Estimate $300-700

Mold: Rim chip restored at one end.
Tray: Very slight rim nick.


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