English slipware lights up Shrewsbury saleroom
Made around 260 years ago, a rare English slipware press-moulded dish came undamaged from a Welsh Marches vendor into the Shrewsbury salerooms of Halls, lighting up the eyes of fine art director Jeremy Lamond whose specialty is ceramics.
He identified it as similar to one at the Potteries Museum in Stoke-on-Trent, which is believed to h…