Pickle Dish, Bow, soft paste porcelain, c.1765

This Bow pickle dish of vine leaf shape and serrated rim is painted in blue with trailing sprays of peonies and daisies. The reverse is lightly moulded with veins. The blue painted decoration has run into the glaze in the centre of the dish. There is characteristic pooling of bluish glaze around the stalk and the footrim.

The base is painted with the workman's tally mark number 12.

Condition: the serrated rim is chipped, and there is crazing to the glaze. No cracks or restoration.

This piece displays well and would make an attractive addition to any collection of early English porcelain.

Dimensions: Width 3 7/8" (9.8cm)

Geoffrey A. Godden, Godden's Guide to Blue and White Porcelain, Antique Collectors' Club, 2004.