A Worcester quatrefoil sauce-tureen, cover and stand of 'Lord Henry Thynne' type

CIRCA 1775, BLUE CRESCENT MARKS

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A Worcester quatrefoil sauce-tureen, cover and stand of 'Lord Henry Thynne' type
Circa 1775, blue crescent marks
The stand painted with three foxes in a landscape, the tureen with a fox in a lake with bees and a hedgehog and a fox carrying a sheep, the cover with a lion and a dog eating a bat, within turquoise and gilt bordered cartouches on a ground of birds and insects in flight, groups of fruit pierced by bows and arrows and flower-garlands, within blue-ground borders enriched in gilt with alternating diaper, lozenge and floral ornament, the tureen with shell handles and the cover with bud finial (minor rim and footrim chips, slight wear to enamels and gilt)
The stand 9 3/8in. (23.5cm.) wide

Provenance

Robert Drane Collection, Cardiff, no. 671.

Literature

Albert Amor Ltd., op. cit., fig. 671.

Exhibited

Albert Amor Ltd., May 1922.

Lot Essay

Cf. H. Rissik Marshall, op. cit. (1954), pl. 27, no. 594, Severne Mackenna, op. cit. (1950), pl. 65, no. 133 and pl. 66, no. 136 and the examples sold in these Rooms on 27 June 1966, lot 25 and on 17 March 1970, lot 34.

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