Lot Essay
Cf. Aileen Dawson, French porcelain in the Ashmolean Museum (1996), p. 34, no. 24 for a very similar tureen and stand.
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CIRCA 1745, IRON-RED HUNTING HORN MARKS
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A Chantilly Kakiemon quatrefoil sugar-bowl, cover and a stand
Circa 1745, iron-red hunting horn marks
Painted in turquoise, pale-blue, yellow, brown and iron-red with flowering branches, flower-sprays and beetles, the rim of the domed cover with an aperture for a spoon, the finial formed as three flowers (part of underside of tureen rim ground, minute chipping to finial, stand with rim chip and wear to surface)
The stand 9½ in. (24 cm.) wide (2)
Circa 1745, iron-red hunting horn marks
Painted in turquoise, pale-blue, yellow, brown and iron-red with flowering branches, flower-sprays and beetles, the rim of the domed cover with an aperture for a spoon, the finial formed as three flowers (part of underside of tureen rim ground, minute chipping to finial, stand with rim chip and wear to surface)
The stand 9½ in. (24 cm.) wide (2)