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Lot 108

A Whieldon-type creamware melon tureen and cover, circa 1765

17 May 2017, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£600 - £800

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A Whieldon-type creamware melon tureen and cover, circa 1765

Naturalistically modelled, the cover with a stalk handle with moulded leaf terminals, the base with a short stem and leafy branches running down the sides, the surface moulded in relief with a network of veins and coloured in shades of green and ochre, 17.5cm long (restored)

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Provenance:
Zorensky Collection

Two similar tureens with fixed stands are illustrated by Leslie Grigsby, The Henry Weldon Collection (1990), p.227, no.119. For a related shape in Longton Hall porcelain see the Rous Lench Collection, Christie's 29 and 30 May 1990, lot 415

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