Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 218
Two rare Strasbourg porcelain circular tureens and covers, late 18th century
14 June 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£6,000 - £8,000
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Two rare Strasbourg porcelain circular tureens and covers, late 18th century
On four high gilt-edged column feet, applied with bull's head handles embellished in gilding or purple and with gilt and ochre rings, respectively, painted with scattered flower sprays, the urn-shaped finial and moulded rims edged in gilding, and gilding and purple, 27cm diam., 31cm high, one with indistinct underglaze-blue mark and incised V419, painter's numeral 50 (minor wear and chips) (4)
Footnotes
A smaller similar tureen and cover with its stand is in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg, see E. Tilmans, Porcelaines de France (1953), p. 122.
