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Lot 414

An early Lowestoft pickle or sweetmeat dish, circa 1758

1 December 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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An early Lowestoft pickle or sweetmeat dish, circa 1758

Of large size, leaf-shaped with a serrated rim, the underside finely moulded with veins and three stalk feet, the upper surface painted in blue with a wading bird amongst flowering plants, another bird in flight, short blue dashes at the rim, 16.2cm high, painter's numeral 6

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Provenance
Geoffrey Godden Collection
Gordon and Lorna Turner Collection

Illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain (1992), p.206, fig.361. Godden also illustrates the underside of the present lot alongside two similar examples from his collection, see Lowestoft Porcelains (1985), p.52, pl.33 (left). One of these leaf dishes (centre) was sold by Bonhams on 30 June 2010, lot 122. Christopher Spencer discusses both pieces in Early Lowestoft (1981), pp.92-3.

This attractive and distinctive style of bird painting can be seen on an important Lowestoft spoon tray also from the Geoffrey Godden Collection, sold by Bonhams on 30 June 2010, lot 119. The present lot exhibits the same slightly pink 'wet' glaze, and almost tin-glazed appearance, which is typical of very early Lowestoft.

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