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

Lot 46

A very rare Limehouse dish, circa 1746-48

30 June 2010, 10:30 BST

London, New Bond Street

Sold for £8,400 inc. premium

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A very rare Limehouse dish, circa 1746-48

Of leaf shape, the underside moulded in relief with crisp and detailed veining and applied with five crescent-shaped feet, the upper surface with impressed veins, painted in blue in European style with a wickerwork basket containing fruit from which grows graciously-curved stems bearing leaves and flowers, a variety of insects in flight inside the rim, 19.4cm high (rim chips)

Footnotes

Illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, English Blue and White Porcelain (2004), colour plate 11, p 74 and pl 78 (left), p 77 where it is described as ...'thinly potted and a joy...'. The fine quality moulding to the underside is shown at pl 99, p 97. This dish is one of four examples from a private house which came to light in 1993. Another example, painted in blue with insects, is illustrated in Limehouse Ware Revealed (1993), colour plate VIII and fig 130 where it is shown alongside fragments from the Pomona pottery site. The Limehouse and Pomona examples share the unusual feature of relief-moulded veining to the underside and impressed moulding to the upper surface. The moulding on the underside of this lot appears to be the same as that on the previous lot in this sale. However, the impressed details on the upper surfaces are different, suggesting that a different mould was used or perhaps a real leaf was pressed onto the upper surface of each dish. The link between Limehouse and Pomona is discussed by Bernard Watney at Chapter 6

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