A FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL OVAL FOLIATE TUREEN, COVER AND STAND with hare-head handles, enamelled with a coat-of-arms beneath a crest and above the motto Fortitudine within bands of grisaille trellis-pattern and spear-heads, the domed cover with frond finial (gilt partly rubbed), circa 1785

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A FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL OVAL FOLIATE TUREEN, COVER AND STAND with hare-head handles, enamelled with a coat-of-arms beneath a crest and above the motto Fortitudine within bands of grisaille trellis-pattern and spear-heads, the domed cover with frond finial (gilt partly rubbed), circa 1785
the stand 33cm. wide

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Farquharson. Cf. D. S. Howard, op. cit., p.697

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