FIRST PERIOD WORCESTER PICKLE DISH

England, c1760

Workman’s Mark: Underglaze Blue X

The leaf form dish of thin ceramic with slender stem and feathered serrated edge, decorated in underglaze blue with the "Vine Leaf" pattern

of flowers and scrolling vines; the verso molded with veins and with the workman's mark X

Condition: Excellent; three minute frits to the edge points, recognizable more to the touch than to the eye

3.5" High

SOLD

#5444

FIRST PERIOD WORCESTER PICKLE DISH

England, c1770, Open Crescent Mark

The leaf form dish of thin ceramic with slender stem and feathered serrated edge, decorated in underglaze blue with the "Vine Leaf" pattern of flowers and scrolling vines; the verso molded with veins and with an open underglaze blue crescent

Condition: Excellent; only one minute frit to one edge point, visible only beneath a loupe

3.5” High

Price: Please Inquire

#5445

DERBY PORCELAIN PICKLE DISH

England, c1770, unmarked (Duesbury)

The deep leaf form dish with three part open stem and feathered serrated edge, decorated in underglaze

blue with a central rose with buds and other flora; the verso molded with veins

Condition: Excellent; no frits found

4 1/8” High

SOLD

#5446

Pickle Dishes were very valued in the mid-to late 18^th century, as their contents would disguise the meats gone stale,

due to lack of refrigeration. Consequently they were made of the finest porcelains. The first ones (c1750)

were of the clam shape, devised by Limehouse and by Lund’s Bristol. A Lund’s Bristol clam shape pickle dish

sold in 2005 at Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, England, for 22,000 GBP. About 1760, the more popular form

became that of a fig or grape leaf, usually decorated in underglaze blue and white.

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