Pickle dish — CRC# 1513

Description

A Lund's Bristol scallop shell pickle dish, circa 1748-50, painted in blue with a Chinese vase containing two feathers in front of a partly unrolled scroll, the border with three long feathers entwined with ribbons, a shell flanked by two leaves at the base, the underside with two leafy branches, 9cm long

Service

Blue/white

Date

1749-51

Size

8.3cm wide, 2cm high

Condition

Perfect

Mark Group

No mark

Decorator

No mark

Maker

Lund

Historic Provenance

R W Knox Collection. Chemical analysis of a distinctive class of pickle dishes traditionally attributed to Limehouse has shown these to be primarily of the Mg-P-Pb type and therefore made from a formula containing soaprock. While some examples appear to be more highly vitrified or glassy than others, it seems likely that all were in fact manufactured in Bristol, see Ray Jones, The Origins of Worcester Porcelain (2018), pp.248-51, where a dish with similar decoration including a flying insect is illustrated on p.249, no.JY5.

CRC#

1513

Type

Pickle dish