A RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE BOAR'S-HEAD TUREENS AND COVERS, each modelled as the head of a wild boar looking upwards with its mouth open to expose its teeth and tongue, with pointed ears and large eyes, the cover forming the upper part of the head, naturalistically enamelled with grey fur, an iron-red snout, white teeth and a pink tongue (one with cover cracked and one ear fritted, the other with inside of mouth and base restored), 18th Century | Christie's

Lot 25

A RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE BOAR'S-HEAD TUREENS AND COVERS, each modelled as the head of a wild boar looking upwards with its mouth open to expose its teeth and tongue, with pointed ears and large eyes, the cover forming the upper part of the head, naturalistically enamelled with grey fur, an iron-red snout, white teeth and a pink tongue (one with cover cracked and one ear fritted, the other with inside of mouth and base restored), 18th Century

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A RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE BOAR'S-HEAD TUREENS AND COVERS, each modelled as the head of a wild boar looking upwards with its mouth open to expose its teeth and tongue, with pointed ears and large eyes, the cover forming the upper part of the head, naturalistically enamelled with grey fur, an iron-red snout, white teeth and a pink tongue (one with cover cracked and one ear fritted, the other with inside of mouth and base restored), 18th Century
22cm. long (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. D. Howard and J. Ayers, op. cit.,, p. 628 for a similar tureen; and the example in the Peabody Museum of Salem, illustrated by W. R. Sargent, op. cit., p. 202

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