A creamware salad bowl and a melon tureen, cover with fixed stand, circa 1790-1800
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A creamware salad bowl and a melon tureen, cover with fixed stand, circa 1790-1800
The fruitbowl, probably Whitehead, moulded with a crisp fluted body with a shaped rim over a domed foot, 23.9cm diam (restored), the melon tureen probably Castleford or Leeds, realistically moulded with a bud finial and leaf shaped stand, 26cm wide 3
Sold for £1,000 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • The salad bowl shape appears in both the Castleford and Whitehead pattern books of 1796-98. A melon tureen also appears in the Castleford book, p.12, pl.27.

Auction Notices

  • In addition to the damage mentioned, the tureen and integral stand have been restored

Category: Decorative Arts / British Ceramics

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