An English pearlware salt, 18th century. Blue feather decoration

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An English pearlware salt, 18th century. Blue feather decorationDescription. Painted, underglaze, with a blue line just below the rim and a further line at the base of the socle. Feather moulded rim and fluted body and socle. Triangular plinth. Condition. Having regard to the age, use (i. e as a salt with the attendant risk) and fragility of this item, it's condition is excellent. There are merely two hairlines and some crazing. Dimensions. 8cm in length. We do not offer combined postage as the figure we charge

Starkly elegant gilt rim decoration

Seaweed gilding to the remainder of the body

Saucer 14cm in diameter

Snapped pontil

Dimensions

within finely moulded c-scroll reserves

indicative of Philip Christian origin

Well-painted with a fine botanical study of the wild vetch plant

FBB mark impressed to the base

There is excellent modern restoration to a long crack to the left side of the body

clearly factory damage

a firing flaw to the underside of the base