A rare Limehouse pickle dish, circa 1746-48A rare Limehouse pickle dish, circa 1746-48Of scallop shell form with an unusual solid blue handle drilled with a small hole, painted in blue with flowering peony and distant flights of birds, 10cm highProvenanceBelton House, LincolnshireSimon Spero exhibition, 2017, no.21Sylvia and Alan Low CollectionA larger, related example from the Geoffrey Godden Collection was sold by Bonhams on 30 June 2010, lot 44. Both were purchased at an auction of contents from Belton House in 1984 amongst a small group of similar wares, all drilled with a single hole for suspension. Spero suggests this group was acquired at Belton House in the 1740s. The particularly rare moulded underside, seen on both the present lot and the Godden example, is classified by as 'type C1a', see Ray Jones, The Origins of Worcester Porcelain (2018), p.244, fig.(ii).