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A very rare Limehouse dish, circa 1746-48 image 1

Lot 44

A very rare Limehouse dish, circa 1746-48

30 June 2010, 10:30 BST

London, New Bond Street

Sold for £2,640 inc. premium

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A very rare Limehouse dish, circa 1746-48

Of scallop shell form with crisp shell moulding to the underside and a dished oval section to the base for use as a handle, delicately painted in blue with a flowering plant, a central flower below a wispy stem bearing a smaller bloom, 14.8cm high (broken section cleanly restored, a tiny hole drilled in the handle for suspension)

Footnotes

Provenance: Simon Spero, who purchased this lot from the sale of contents from Belton House, Lincolnshire, in the early 1980s. This was one of a group of Limehouse pieces in the kitchens of the house, all of which had been drilled with a single hole, suggesting they had been used in the house as decoration from the time they were made. Limehouse pickle dishes of scallop shell form are found relatively often. This larger dish of the same basic shape, but with a semi-circular section at the base, is much rarer and no other example appears to have been recorded in the literature. Interestingly, some rare Worcester scallop shell pickle dishes also bear this semi-circular section. The painting on the present lot is closely related to that on a very rare heart-shaped pickle dish from the Susi and Ian Sutherland Collection, lot 106, and the leaves at the base of the plant relate to those found on another larger Limehouse dish, lot 105 in the same sale

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