Dish — CRC# 1509

Description

An exceptional Lund's Bristol large scallop shell dish, circa 1749, sharply moulded in the shape of a single scallop shell, painted in blue with a 'Long Eliza' figure holding a fan, standing beside a pine tree and pointing to a flowering plant, four ribboned 'Precious Objects' inside the rim and a shell and two leaves at the base, the underside rim painted with plant tendrils, 14.5cm high

Service

Blue/white

Date

1749-51

Size

12.8cm wide, 3cm high

Condition

Perfect

Mark

No mark

Mark Group

No mark

Decorator

No mark

Maker

Lund

Labels

Guy-Jones Collection 498

Historic Provenance

Caldwell Collection; Peter Stone Collection; Simon Spero exhibition, 1998, no.27; Phillips, 31 October 2001, lot 28; Simon Spero exhibition, 2006, no.29; Gordon & Sue Guy-Jones Collection. Literature: Ray Jones, The Origins of Worcester Porcelain (2018), p.262, fig.iii. Once thought to be Liverpool and then reattributed to Limehouse, chemical analysis of closely related dishes has revealed these to be of the Mg-P-Pb type, and it is therefore unlikely that these were produced at Limehouse. The present lot and other very similar large scallop dishes with identical decoration are discussed by Ray Jones, pp.260-262. Jones concludes that a Lund's attribution is most likely.

CRC#

1509

Type

Dish