A PAIR OF SMALL EXPORT MONOGRAMMED TUREENS AND TWO COVERS

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A PAIR OF SMALL EXPORT MONOGRAMMED TUREENS AND TWO COVERS
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Each of oval shape, both sides decorated in blue enamel and gilt with a draped shield containing the initials RL, below a double band of stars at the rim, the covers similarly decorated and surmounted by a flower-head finial, one cover with the initial L, one with rim crack, some gilding rubbed
8in. (20cm.) wide (4)

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Cf. the similar tureen and cover, with additional stand, from the McCann Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated by M. Beurdeley, op.cit., cat.184, p.192, where the author says this shape is taken from Wedgwood creamware of circa 1774

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