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A very rare Limehouse dish, circa 1746-48 image 1
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Lot 45

A very rare Limehouse dish, circa 1746-48

30 June 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A very rare Limehouse dish, circa 1746-48

Of leaf shape, the underside moulded in relief with detailed veining and applied with five crescent-shaped feet, the upper surface with impressed veins, painted in blue with two insects in flight above a twin-branched flowering plant, 19.8cm high

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Illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, English Blue and White Porcelain (2004), colour plate 11, p 74 and pl 78, p 77 (right) and An Introduction to English Blue and White Porcelains (1974), pl. 19, fig. 98. A comparison with the following lot provides a lesson in the extent to which paste and glaze of Limehouse can vary considerably from piece to piece. Although both dishes are of the same shape and form, there are some significant differences in the glaze. This lot has been more thickly glazed, the glaze appearing to have been slightly blued to counteract the creamy or yellowish tone of the body. It is also slightly more opaque, presumably because of the addition of tin oxide. A very similar dish is illustrated in Limehouse Ware Revealed (1993), fig 129, p 63. Fragments of similar dishes from the Limehouse factory site are illustrated at figs 131 and 132

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