Dated Tin-glazed Earthenware Porringer

Description:

Dated Tin-glazed Earthenware Porringer, Bristol, England, the heart-pierced handle on a round bowl with diaper- and floral scroll-decorated exterior, the interior with inscription and date "EL/1742" within a wreath, bowl dia. 5 3/4 in.

Provenance: Lillian Cogan, Farmington, Connecticut, August 1978.

Literature: Illustrated and described in Louis Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware: Tin-Glazed Earthenware, 1600-1800 (London: Philip Wilson Publishers, 1984),no. 1243.
Estimate $1,000-1,500

There is a crack in the bowl near the handle and chip in the rim. Crazed surface.


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