Lot Essay
The arms are those of colonel Messire Jean-Charles-Henri van Dam baron van Dam d'Audignies and Marie-Philippine de Meulde de la Deuze, dame de Thiant, see Archeologie des Familles de Belgique, by Felix-Victor Goethals, p.112.
The shape of this tureen is probably based on a silver original and was then copied in faience at several European factories including Strasbourg, Crailsheim, Nuremburg and Hochst.
cf. J.G. Phillips, op.cit., p.116, fig.41 where a similarly modelled tureen for the Danish market is illustrated along with a Hochst original by Ignatz Hess, circa 1750.
For further examples of similar form, cf. J.M. Beurdeley, op.cit., p.41, fig.19 and p.49, fig. 23; D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, op.cit., p.218, no. 154; D. Howard and J. Ayers, op.cit., p.552, pl.571, where the tureen is decorated with gilt flower-sprays; and A. du Boulay, op.cit., p.280, no.3.
The shape of this tureen is probably based on a silver original and was then copied in faience at several European factories including Strasbourg, Crailsheim, Nuremburg and Hochst.
cf. J.G. Phillips, op.cit., p.116, fig.41 where a similarly modelled tureen for the Danish market is illustrated along with a Hochst original by Ignatz Hess, circa 1750.
For further examples of similar form, cf. J.M. Beurdeley, op.cit., p.41, fig.19 and p.49, fig. 23; D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, op.cit., p.218, no. 154; D. Howard and J. Ayers, op.cit., p.552, pl.571, where the tureen is decorated with gilt flower-sprays; and A. du Boulay, op.cit., p.280, no.3.