A SCEAUX FAIENCE TROMPE L'OEIL OVAL TWO-HANDLED TUREEN AND COVER

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A SCEAUX FAIENCE TROMPE L'OEIL OVAL TWO-HANDLED TUREEN AND COVER
CIRCA 1760, PUCE FLEUR-DE-LYS MARK

The basket with entwined green and turquoise branch handles extending with flowers across the sides, the wicker-work painted in yellow and purple, the simulated linen sides painted with flowers, the cover modelled as a knotted cloth, painted with flowers and revealing the heads of a hare, a duck, a snipe, a quail, an eel and the tail feathers of another bird among brilliantly painted bouquets of flowers (repair to knot, small extended fire cracks in cover)--16in. (40cm.) wide