A Staffordshire slipware cup or porringer, dated 1700
Of shallow cylindrical form, slightly rounded at the foot, a small strap handle applied at the side, the exterior trailed in cream-coloured slip onto the dark brown ground with a feathered tulip flanked by the date '1700', vertical stripes to either side, 5.5cm high
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Provenance:Mr and Mrs Price Glover, New York, Christie's sale 14 June 1988, lot 83Syd Levethan, Longridge Collection, Christie's sale 25 May 2011, lot 178Literature:Illustrated by Leslie B. Grigsby, the Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware (2000), fig.S57.Vessels bearing similar decoration have been excavated in Burslem. A related tulip cup illustrated by David Barker and Steve Crompton, Slipware in the Collection of the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery (2007), p.24 was found in High Street, Burslem. A similar but undated porringer is illustrated at p. 42.