BOW PORCELAIN BLUE & WHITE PICKLE DISH

England, c1765-70

Of leaf form painted in blue and white with three grape clusters among leaves and tendrils within

a feuille-de-choux rim, the verso with veining

Condition: Very good to excellent; minor invisible restoration to a single point

Pickle Dishes were used as containers for the very expensive Oriental spices that disguised the taste of rancid

of otherwise tasteless foods in the 18th century. Refrigeration consisted perhaps of only a 55 degree springhouse,

in which foods kept well only a short period of time. Pickle dishes were made in both leaf and escallop shell forms,

and are among the most collectible of early English porcelains.

2-7/8" High x 3-7/8" Wide

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