Pickle dish — CRC# 1520

Description

A Lund's Bristol pickle dish, circa 1750-52 modelled as a pointed ivy leaf, the underside with lightly moulded veins, painted in soft blue with the 'Pointing Chinaman' pattern, a 'Long Eliza' figure standing beside flowering shrubs and a curious rock, 10.4cm long

Service

Blue/white

Date

1749-51

Maker

Lund

Historic Provenance

With Simon Spero, 2008. Literature: White, Mary, Eating at the Whites' House, Vol.3, 2022, p.392, fig.b Several examples of pickle leaves in this distinctive three-pointed shape and 'Pointing Chinaman' pattern are illustrated by Ray Jones, The Origins of Worcester Porcelain, 2018, pp.389-90, where he concludes that the group is most likely to be of Bristol manufacture. A very similar example from the Pauline and David Tate Collection was sold by Bonhams on 19 June 2024, lot 322

CRC#

1520

Type

Pickle dish