CIRCA 1760-70

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A RARE FAMILLE ROSE 'QUAIL' TUREEN AND COVER
Circa 1760-70
Well modelled and enamelled as a quail crouching in its nest, its head turned sharply to the left, the body with realistically moulded wing and tail feathers enamelled in shades of sepia, grisaille and black with a yellow stripe to the upper wings, the face and breast feathers iron-red extending onto the lower half, and the head and neck finely stippled en grisaille and continuing on the body with an area of puce feathers behind its head, the nest rim relief-moulded with grasses and small feathers, minute extremity chips
6 in. (15.3 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

The form is probably taken from a Meissen original which was copied by the Bow, Derby, Chelsea and Worcester factories and this example is closest in style to those made at Bow. Bird and animal tureens were very popular on the 18th Century dining table, although one cannot be sure whether tureens of this form were actually used for quail delicacies. Compare the very similar example illustrated by W. R. Sargent, The Copeland Collection, Salem, 1991, no.99, pp.204 and 205. See also the related tureen and cover formerly in the C. T. Loo Collection, Paris, illustrated by M. Beurdeley, Porcelain of the East India Companies, London, 1962, cat. 181, p.192.

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