Description:
English delft one-piece, press-molded sweetmeat or pickle dish with six compartments, decorated in blue. These dishes were used to serve appetizers or accompaniments to the meal courses, such as sweetmeats, pickled vegetables, preserves, candies, and nuts. Most were made in one piece, with from one to seven compartments; but others could be made of removable dishes that nested together. Fragments of trays with seven lobes (both glazed and unglazed) and a six-sectioned dish have been excavated at Lambeth (on the south side of the Thames in London). William Ellery, a china and glass merchant in Hartford, Connecticut, advertised "One, two, and three leav'd pickle stands, very beautiful" in the "Connecticut Courant" on November 5, 1771. The dish has five kidney-shaped compartments around a central five-pointed star. The edges are decorated with scroll and leaf patterns; the well of the center star has a large floral spray, and the surrounding compartments have a chinoiserie scene of a man with a pole standing by a fence flanked by foliage. The dish is supported on five bun feet attached to the glazed base.
Label Text:
Pickle dishes were filled with savory pickles during first or second course of dinner or could contain sweetmeats and be incorporated into the dessert service.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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