An English slipware model of a cradle, probably Staffordshire, circa 1690-1700


Of slab construction with two rockers, the sides and triangular hood applied with globular knobs, the dark brown ground trailed in cream-coloured slip with feathered tulips within dotted borders, the initials 'ID' trailed on the hood, 27.3cm long
|Provenance:Sotheby's sale 27 May 1975, lot 4Kahn CollectionDavid E. ZeitlinWith Mark and Marjorie AllenSyd Levethan, Longridge Collection, Christie's sale 25 May 2011, lot 141Model cradles are believed to have been intended to commemorate weddings or births. A number are illustrated by David Barker and Steve Crompton, Slipware in the Collection of the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery p.99-102. Another is illustrated by Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware (2000), fig.S95 and is dated 1708.