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Lot 393

A very rare Worcester pickle dish, circa 1757-58

1 December 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£1,200 - £1,500

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A very rare Worcester pickle dish, circa 1757-58

Modelled in the shape of a vine leaf with a serrated rim, the underside crisply moulded with fine vines, painted in bright colours with a European flower spray and smaller floral sprigs, 9.2cm wide

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Owing to problems caused by salts and acids in pickles and preserves, most factories produced pickle dishes in underglaze blue only. A few Worcester pickle leaves of vine leaf shape occur with overglaze decoration from the later 1760s and 1770s but very few from this early period appear to be recorded. A very similar pickle dish from the R David Butti Collection was sold by Bonhams on 10 September 2008, lot 244. At the time it was thought to be the only surviving example of this type.

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