A RARE STAFFORDSHIRE TRANSFER-PRINTED SALT-GLAZED STONEWARE PLATE CIRCA 1755

A RARE STAFFORDSHIRE TRANSFER-PRINTED SALT-GLAZED STONEWARE PLATE CIRCA 1755

transfer-printed in red, probably in Battersea, after François Boucher, with a pair of lovers seated in a garden spied upon by 'Paul Pry' within a turquoise-enamelled diaper-molded border on the shaped rim.
Diameter 9⅛ in.
23 cm

Condition Report:
Minor approximate 1/4-in. flat chip to the rim edge and a fine 1-in. haircrack extending from the inner rim edge into the cavetto too the edge of the transfer-print. Some minor wear to the transfer-printed decoration.

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Provenance:
The T. Murray Ragg Collection, Sotheby's London, March 23, 1954, lot 109

The Collection of Cyril Cook, sold Sotheby's London, July 21, 1964, lot 5 (bearing collection label no. 242)

The Property of the late Sir William Mullens, D. S. O., T. D., T. L., Sotheby's London, February 22, 1977, lot 1

The Harriet Carlton Goldweitz Collection, sold, Sotheby's New York, January, 20, 2006, lot 96 (bearing collection label)