Pickle dish — CRC# 1511

Description

A Lund's Bristol scallop shell pickle dish, circa 1751, of small size, the underside moulded with chevrons around the footrim, painted in blue with a Chinese boy in a walking attitude, holding a flower, pylon foliage on a striped rock behind him and flights of birds above, the rim with close-packed horizontal lines, shell and leaf motifs at the base, 8.4cm high

Service

Blue/white

Date

1749-51

Size

7.8cm wide, 2.4cm high

Condition

Perfect

Mark Group

No mark

Decorator

No mark

Maker

Lund

Labels

Guy-Jones Collection 322

Historic Provenance

Gordon & Sue Guy-Jones Collection; This 'Chinese Man' motif was popular on Lund's scallop-shaped pickle dishes painted by different hands. Several examples are illustrated by Ray Jones, The Origins of Worcester Porcelain (2018), p.384, figs.vii-x. The present lot has fired particularly well without any blurring. While it is conceivable, therefore, that this is a transitional Bristol-early Worcester example, a Lund's origin seems much more likely, especially as the pattern is found painted entirely in manganese.

CRC#

1511

Type

Pickle dish