Modelled as a pointed ivy leaf, the underside with lightly moulded veins, painted in soft blue with the 'Pointing Chinaman' pattern, a 'Long Eliza' figure standing beside flowering shrubs and a curious rock, 10.4cm long
Footnotes
Provenance
With Simon Spero, 2008
Literature
White, Mary, Eating at the Whites' House, Vol.3, 2022, p.392, fig.b
Several examples of pickle leaves in this distinctive three-pointed shape and 'Pointing Chinaman' pattern are illustrated by Ray Jones, The Origins of Worcester Porcelain, 2018, pp.389-90, where he concludes that the group is most likely to be of Bristol manufacture. A very similar example from the Pauline and David Tate Collection was sold by Bonhams on 19 June 2024, lot 322.