Lot Essay
The arms are those of Lane.
A similiar tureen on stand by the same maker, of 1755, is in the Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, and illustrated in Mabille, Orfèvrerie Française des XVIe XVIIe XVIIIe Siècles, Paris, 1984, p. 108. This tureen is also illustrated in French Master Goldsmiths and Siversmiths, New Yrok, 1966, p. 160, where it is described thus: "[this] splendid olio jar can be considered as characteristic of the prevailing taste in the middle of the eighteenth century. Its twisted feet open out into undulating scrolls, framing curiously elongated shells. The handles also belong to the vegetable kingdom, together with the divided pomegranate crowning the lid chased with twisted grooves. The blazoned escutcheon is placed on a tablet with scrolls."
A similiar tureen on stand by the same maker, of 1755, is in the Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, and illustrated in Mabille, Orfèvrerie Française des XVIe XVIIe XVIIIe Siècles, Paris, 1984, p. 108. This tureen is also illustrated in French Master Goldsmiths and Siversmiths, New Yrok, 1966, p. 160, where it is described thus: "[this] splendid olio jar can be considered as characteristic of the prevailing taste in the middle of the eighteenth century. Its twisted feet open out into undulating scrolls, framing curiously elongated shells. The handles also belong to the vegetable kingdom, together with the divided pomegranate crowning the lid chased with twisted grooves. The blazoned escutcheon is placed on a tablet with scrolls."