EDMUND JOHN BIRCH BLACK BASALT OBLONG PLAQUE, â CHEIRON 1782â

EDMUND JOHN BIRCH BLACK BASALT OBLONG PLAQUE, â CHEIRON 1782â
circa 1790-1810, impressed BIRCH, depicting a satyr playing the pipes as a young satyr dances beneath a fruiting tree, inscribed Cheiron 1782, within a serrated frame, l: 11 5/8 x w: 9 1/4 in.

Provenance: With Lindsay Grigsby Antiques, 2017.
Jeffrey Milkins Collection, no. 900.

Catalogue Note:
Edmund John Birch is recorded as a potter active in two locations in Hanley, Staffordshire, circa 1796-1814.

For a nearly identical plaque, marked WEDGWOOD on the reverse, see Property of the Arthur Schwartz Estate, Southfield, MI, DuMouchelles, Detroit, IL, 21 March, 2020, lot 1052. For a black basalt coffee-pot and cover by E.J. Birchâ s, see the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, museum no. 1982.120a-b. For a sugar- bowl and cover and a teapot and cover by E.J. Birch, see the Rijksmuseum, NL, museum nos. BK-NM- 12558 and BK-NM-12556.

Literature: Diana Edwards, â Black Basalt Wedgwood and Contemporary Manufacturers'â , p. 122-129, fig. 170.