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An early Lowestoft large pickle or sweetmeat dish, circa 1759-60
30 June 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £9,000 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistAn early Lowestoft large pickle or sweetmeat dish, circa 1759-60
Of leaf shape with a serrated rim and a tiny stalk handle, the underside impressed with veining and applied with three stalk feet, the upper surface painted in blue with a comical bird perched on a tall flowering plant, the petals and rim shaded with closely packed parallel lines, two smaller plants on either side, 13.8cm tall, painter's numeral 8 (minute rim chip)
Footnotes
Illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, An Introduction to English Blue and White Porcelains (1974), pl. 13, fig. 65 and by Christopher Spencer, Early Lowestoft, fig 114, p 93, where he discusses the brush marks visible on the surface of the glaze, suggesting that some early examples were brushed with tin oxide in order to make them whiter. For a similar dish, see English Blue and White Porcelain (2004), colour plate 71, p 276 and pl 325, p 270 and Lowestoft Porcelains (1985), colour plate 1, p 19. For the same pattern on an early scallop shell dish, see pl 32, p 51.
