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A pair of similar wall pockets with polychrome decoration is illustrated by Leslie B Grigsby, The Longridge Collection (2000), p.422, no.D379 but the present lot appears to be the only recorded pair in blue and white. The modelling is more detailed on the present monochrome version, with the fish scales simulated individually with light moulding. Most asymmetrical pairs of delftware wall pockets occur as mirror images of each other, but the small number of recorded pairs of fish pockets are all of identical form.