Rare Early Grapevine Pattern Pickle Dish c1764-66

A Lowestoft porcelain pickle dish of veined leaf shape with serrated edge, hand painted in underglaze blue with the Grapevine pattern c1764-66.

The pickle dish measures 9.8cm in diameter and 8.9cm wide.

Flea bite chip to rim.

Unmarked.

This shape is found on the earlier pickle dishes, which are rarer than the standard shape (see images for this and a later example shown together).