Lot Essay
Cf. a tureen with similar handles, painted by the same hand, sold in these Rooms, 6 October 1986, lot 201; another blue and white tureen of similar shape but with a seated chinaman finial, from the Dr. Ernst Schneider collection, illustrated by Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, no. 525; however although Frauenköpfe handles are known on other pieces, Frauenköpfe finials are not apparently recorded on any other Meissen tureens of this shape, perhaps they were inspired by the sphinx supports from clock cases modelled by Johann Gottlieb Kirchner