A Limehouse pickle dish, circa 1746-48
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A good Limehouse pickle dish, circa 1746-48
Crisply moulded in the form a scallop shell, painted in an inky blue with a small vignette of a landscape with a house on an island before distant mountains, surrounded by Chinese feather and ribbon motifs, a shell flanked by two feathers beneath, with two single branches of leaves painted in blue to the underside, 10.4cm long
Sold for £3,000 inc. premium

Category: Decorative Arts / British Ceramics

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