Pickle dish — CRC# 1512

Description

A Lund's Bristol scallop shell pickle dish, circa 1750, of small size and simply moulded, painted in blue with a cartoon-like 'Long Eliza' figure pointing, surrounded by birds in flight, diaper panels edged with scrollwork around the rim, two leaves and a shell at the base, 9.2cm high

Service

Blue/white

Date

1749-51

Size

8.1cm wide, 2cm wide

Condition

Perfect

Mark Group

No mark

Decorator

No mark

Maker

Lund

Labels

Guy-Jones Collection 167

Historic Provenance

With Simon Spero, 1985; Gordon & Sue Guy-Jones Collection. Several pickle dishes of this type are recorded with 'Long Eliza' figures painted in somewhat of a cartoon manner. The paste varies and some show heavy crazing, while others, like the present lot are thin and cleanly potted with a good glaze. This appearance is fully consistent with a Lund's Bristol attribution.

CRC#

1512

Type

Pickle dish