Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

Two Worcester shell pickle dishes c.1755, one painted in blue with a rose-centred flower spray and then clobbered in red, green and gilt with sympathetic additional floral decoration, the other originally decorated in the Two Peony Rock Bird pattern and later enamelled with polychrome flowers and a turquoise dotted ground, workman's mark to the former, the latter with an iron red spurious script mark, some damages, 11cm. (2)

While the first of these pickles has had additional decoration added later at the factory to make old stock appeal to modern tastes, the latter has been spuriously decorated in the 19th century to imitate Chinese wares.