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)

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.