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Lot 90

A Limehouse pickle shell, circa 1746-48

13 April 2016, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Limehouse pickle shell, circa 1746-48

In the shape of a scallop shell, painted in blue with a European landscape with an angler on a river bank beneath a tall tree, a towering rock in the distance, the rim and corners of the shell unusually painted with ferns or pine branches, the crisply-moulded underside painted with long blossoming branches, 11.3cm long (kiln blemishes only)

Footnotes

For two pickle shells with very closely-related subjects see the ECC report, Limehouse Ware Revealed (1993), p.36, fig.64 and p.39, fig.73.

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