Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 76
A Strasbourg faience tureen and cover, circa 1750
2 July 2019, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£4,000 - £6,000
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Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
A Strasbourg faience tureen and cover, circa 1750
Of Rococo silver form embellished in polychrome enamels, moulded with scroll-edged rims with lappet borders interspersed with a shell on each side and scroll handles, the footrim with a moulded lappet border, the shell-moulded cover edged in puce and finely painted with four flower sprigs around the finial modelled as a snail emerging from a shell, the underside of the rim of the cover and the foot painted green, 39.5cm across handles (small restored chips to cover) (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
The Thomas Dormandy Collection of European Faience
A similarly-moulded Strasbourg tureen with a flower rather than a shell finial is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, inv. no. 2008.543.18.
