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Lot 153

An early Worcester pickle dish, circa 1752-53

23 June 2021, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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An early Worcester pickle dish, circa 1752-53

Of ivy leaf shape with a stalk handle, fine moulded veins to the underside, painted in delicate hues with scattered flower heads and leaves, 9.9cm long

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Provenance
Faith and Dewayne Perry Collection, Simon Spero exhibition 2008, no.33
Ralph Kenber Collection

Lund's Bristol first produced this model in underglaze blue two or three years prior to Worcester. The manufacture of pickle leaf dishes with the more costly enamelled decoration is mostly concentrated in the short period between 1752-55, after when it was, presumably, conceded that the delicate overglaze decoration was not best suited to serve acidic pickles. For a similar example see H Rissik Marshall, Coloured Worcester Porcelain (1954), pl.45, no.931.

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