A Worcester blue-ground lobed oval blue-ground soup-tureen and cover

CIRCA 1770

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A Worcester blue-ground lobed oval blue-ground soup-tureen and cover
Circa 1770
Painted with garlands of garden flowers within moulded gilt-scroll and puce rocaille cartouches, flanked by gilt flower-sprays with moulded tendrils and with puce-veined moulded green foliage, the lower part of the tureen with gilt-veined moulded plants with puce and yellow spiked flowers, the top rim with pendant moulded gilt scrolls, the interior with a bouquet and scattered flower-sprays, the cover with a green-scaled puce-finned and tailed dolphin finial with elaborate rose, flower and bud tendrils, gilt dentil rim (handles lacking, finial chipped and repaired, chip to underside rim of cover, three chips to rim of tureen)
13½in. (34.5cm.) wide

Lot Essay

Examples of this form of tureen illustrated in the literature are mostly blue and white and none would seem to match this tureen exactly. See Bernard Watney, English Blue and White Porcelain of the 18th Century (1973), col. pl. B; Branyan, French and Sandon, Worcester Blue and White Porcelain 1751-1790 (1981), no. I.A.11 and also Franklin A. Barrett, op. cit., pl. 43A. See also the example from the Rous Lench Collection, sold in these Rooms, 29 May 1990, lot 233.

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