22nd Jul, 2010 10:00 GMT/BST

Summer Catalogue Sale

 
  Lot 107
 

107

A Staffordshire Pottery Anti-Slavery Plate, circa 1838, printed with a vignette of a native...

A Staffordshire Pottery Anti-Slavery Plate, circa 1838, printed with a vignette of a native mother and child and inscribed "As borrowed beams illume our way and shed a bright and cheering ray", "I labour and have no rest, Lam.5C5V", "So Christian Light dispels the gloom that shades poor Negro's hapless doom" and "I am oppressed undertake for me, Isaiah 28C14V", on a lilac ground, 22cm diameter

Sold for £800
Estimated at £700 - £1,000


 

Tiny flat chip 5x5mm to gadrooned rim, two scratch marks to central print, flat chip 5x5mm to reverse of rim, 2.5cm long chip to footrim. 110610

 


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Auction: Summer Catalogue Sale, 22nd Jul, 2010

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