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Rare Liverpool Porcelain John Pennington Leaf Tray Pickle Dish (1 of 9)
The Fancy Fox
Flag of United KingdomSuffolk, UK
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Rare Liverpool Porcelain John Pennington Leaf Tray Pickle Dish

REF: FA1009 / LA332638
£175
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Description
A rare John Pennington porcelain pickle dish formed as a leaf with stalk looped handle, c.1780. Standing on 3 conical feet, the shaped dish has moulded veins and coils around the edge, painted in underglaze blue around the edge and with a central oriental scene of a house with fenced garden and some cannonball style rocks in the water in front. This pattern can also be seen on the reverse of some John Pennington sauceboats decorated with the Large Exotic Bird pattern. Reference: Liverpool Porcelain Of The Eighteenth Century by Watney, colour plate 31d for a similar example.
measurements
Height:
3.8 cm
Width:
13 cm
Length:
12.7 cm
It measures 13cm (5 1/8") wide by 12.7cm (5") long and 3.8cm (1 1/2") high.
declaration
The Fancy Fox has clarified that the Rare Liverpool Porcelain John Pennington Leaf Tray Pickle Dish (LA332638) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being c.1780
condition
Condition is very good: there is a small glaze frit to the rim to the right of the stalk and a shallow chip on the underside of the rim below the tip. No other damage or restoration. There is some crazing and discolouration, more obviously to the reverse and a short glaze level hairline on the underside; this does not come through to the front.
location
This Rare Liverpool Porcelain John Pennington Leaf Tray Pickle Dish is located in Suffolk, United Kingdom