A very rare Vauxhall porcelain pickle dish, hand painted with a pointing Chinaman under a weeping willow tree c1756-60.
The dish measures 7cm in diameter by 7.1cm.
Broken into 4 and re stuck. Missing its stalk.
Unmarked.
Vauxhall pickle dishes of this type are usually found painted with floral patterns. Here’s an example of such a dish sold at Bonhams, part of the Geoffrey Godden collection.