An English creamware transfer-printed soup tureen, cover and stand

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An English creamware transfer-printed soup tureen, cover and stand
with artichoke finial and leaf handles of rococo scroll form, printed with vignettes of exotic birds among branches and sprigs of flowers, the tureen incised 6, the cover incised 28, circa 1770 -- 49cm. wide

Provenance

Wateringbury Place, Kent, sale Christie's, 1-2 June 1978, lot 880.

Sale room notice

Please note the estimate for this lot should read 700-900 pounds

Lot Essay

Cf. Robin Reilly, Wedgwood Vol. I (1989), p. 197, pl. 187 for a plain Sèvres inspired example in the Victoria & Albert Museum with differing handles and foot; and p. 240, pl. 270 for a related transfer-printed sauce tureen at Temple Newsome House, Leeds.

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