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Oct 22, 2025
South Wiltshire or North Hampshire, the body with impressed floral decoration, four applied handles, and "whistle", the rim inscribed "HEAR | I | STAND | TO | WAIT | THE | OUR | TO | HOLD | THE | DROPS | OF | A | PLESENT | SHOUR | 1717", initialed beneath date "IC", 9 x 12 x 12 in.
Provenance: An Important Atlanta Private Collection
Note: A similar example is pictured in The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware by Leslie B. Grigsby, fig. S74, pg. 132-133. This example sold at Sotheby's, Syd Levethan: The Longridge Collection, January 24, 2011, lot 47 for $26,250. Grigsby notes that "pottery of this type traditionally has been associated with South Wiltshire, but recent research supports its attribution to North Hampshire, probably just south of Fordingbridge".
A Rare and Important Staffordshire Slipware Bird Charger bearing notably similar initials of "IC" sold with us in our Important Historic Americana, October 17, 2024, lot 1007 for $30,000, see: https://live.brunkauctions.com/online-auctions/brunk/rare-and-important-staffordshire-slipware-ic-bird-charger-6277777.
Another similar example dated a year later can be seen in the collection of The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England, see Object Number C.368 & A-1928, https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74690.
An Important Atlanta Private Collection
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