A RARE STAFFORDSHIRE SLIPWARE PRESS-MOLDED DISH MID-17TH CENTURY |

decorated with a running stag picked out in brown and russet slip before a tree within a border of arched and pointed lappet panels and a narrow russet-dotted brown slip band within a notched rim.

Thomas Burn Collection, Rous Lench Court, sold, Christie's London, May 29, 1990, lot 74
Art Trading Ltd, London, June 1990
Vogel Collection no. 530

In overall good appearance. There is a short hairline crack to the rim of the dish, measuring approximately 4 cm long, located at 10 o clock in the catalogue illustration. Some minor glaze loss to relief decoration.
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A dish with the same central design showing a stag against a tree, though with a different molded border at the rim is in the Glaisher Collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, illustrated by Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1935, London, Vol. II, pl. 16B, cat. no. 186.