Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 14
A Strasbourg faience tureen and cover, circa 1750
9 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£2,000 - £3,000
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
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.
