An assembled group of twelve Staffordshire white salt-glazed stoneware plates and dishes Circa 1760

Comprising: a deep dish, a shallow dish, six plates and a soup plate with scalloped edges and two plates with round edges, each with a border moulded with a star and dot diaperwork alternating with basketwork within foliate panels and a scallop-edged plate with a border moulded with trailing flowering branches. 12 pieces.

In good condition, except: The scallop-edged plate with a border moulded with trailing flowering branches: has a few tiny rim chips. Plates with scalloped edges: one has two firing-related small chips that are glazed over. Two plates, each with an approximate 3/4-inch flat rim chip and another with two small rim chips. The oval dish has a small area of abrasion along the rim. The deep oval dish, has some minor spots of discoloration in the cavetto area. One has a long discolored forking haircrack in the cavetto area and a few small rim chips.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
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Three shards from plate rims, similarly moulded with basketwork and mosaic motifs, are illustrated in Diana Edwards and Rodney Hampson, White Salt-glazed Stoneware of the British Isles, p. 188, fig. 150, and were excavated at the William Bourne site, Burslem in 1974. The authors further discuss on p. 192, that according to the 1740 and 1768 maps of Burslem, the two possible occupants for this site were John Heath and William Burn.