AN ENGLISH OR IRISH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE CHINOISERIE PICKLE OR SWEETMEAT SET

CIRCA 1755-1760, LIVERPOOL OR POSSIBLY DUBLIN (WORLD'S END POTTERY)

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AN ENGLISH OR IRISH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE CHINOISERIE PICKLE OR SWEETMEAT SET
CIRCA 1755-1760, LIVERPOOL OR POSSIBLY DUBLIN (WORLD'S END POTTERY)
Comprising a lobed square-shaped tray painted with a vase on stand issuing flowers amongst peony and foliage within a border of leaves, containing a lobed square dish and four fan-shaped dishes painted with flowering branches within a fret and whorl-pattern border
8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm.) wide, the tray (6)

Provenance

Kenneth Hammitt; Skinner Inc., Boston, 11 December 1993, lot 86 (as Irish).

Literature

Jonathan Horne, Irish Delftware Exhibition, London, 2000.
Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D202.

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Lot Essay

For a similar sweatmeat set, see Peter Francis, Irish Delftware an Illustrated History, London, 2000, p. 130, figs. 163 a-c. Also compare, John C. Austin, British Delft at Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1994, p. 195, no. 391.

It is interesting to note that Josiah Wedgwood's 1774 catalogue of creamware models, lists a set of similar form as a 'Large Dish which contains five small pieces a,b,c, for Pickles of different kinds.'

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