A Derby Duesbury and Kean Porcelain Botanical Sauce Tureen c1795

Description

Heading : A Derby Duesbury and Kean Porcelain Botanical Sauce Tureen. Cover and Stand
Date : 1795
Period : George 111
Marks :Painted Blue crossed batons.D below crown and 216 to underside of stand with Latin and Engish name of plant in script as below
Origin :Derby. England
Colour :Polychome and gilt
Pattern :216
Features : All banded in yellow above and within a bead and dart narrow gilt band
Condition : The cover with a 5cm by 3cm surface star crack. all else in near mint condition
Restoration :None
Dimensions : The stand is 23cms x 13.5cms. The tureen length 21cms width 10cms. heght 15.5c.s to handle on the cover
Weight : 866 grams

The two intersecting hairlines in the cover are for the most part masked by the periwinkle flower and leaf.

Eric Knowles Comments

This superb Sauce Tureen.Cover and Stand is extensively inscribed in blue script with the name of each plant depicted as follows; The tureen base ‘St Johns Wort’ and ‘Primula Auricula;. the underside of the cover ‘Madagascar Periwinkel’ and the underside of the stand ‘Iris leav’d Sysrinchium’ and ‘Sysrinchium Iridiodes’.