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Lot 74

A fine Limehouse pickle dish
Circa 1746-48.

8 April 2009, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £3,000 inc. premium

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A fine Limehouse pickle dish

Circa 1746-48.
Of press-moulded scallop shell form, the underside with fine ribbing, painted in inky blue with a fisherman within a European landscape, a group of poplar trees to the right and a house in the distance, flanked by foliate branches, a shell painted below, 11.3cm high

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The exceptionally detailed moulding on the underside is a feature shared with a smaller example of basically the same pattern from The Watney Collection Part II, sold in these rooms, Phillips, 10 May 2000, lot 540 and again from The Pinewood Collection, 31 October 2001, lot 25. In this version, the house is replaced by a group of buildings including a tower, and the poplar trees by a group of wispy branches. However, a fragment from a sauceboat excavated on the factory site matches the present lot almost exactly.

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