SOLD – Worcester Junket / Salad Dish c1770

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Worcester Blue Scale Junket or Salad Dish c1770

The georgians had a sweet tooth ! Junket was made with sweetened milk and rennet and was often flavoured with orange or apple. We can vouch that it works well with strawberries and is simply delicious !

Soft-paste porcelain junket or salad dish. painted with scale-pattern in mirror and vase. The deep circular dish has a fluted out-turned rim. with scalloped edge with sixteen intersections. The central well is indented  with a gilded scalloped-edge. Two large gilt scroll-edged panels painted with floral festoons. separated by two smaller panels. and with four similar vignettes at the gilt-banded rim. Square seal mark. 24.5cms diameter approx. No chips . cracks or retsoration or rubbing to the gilding.

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