Covered Tureen

Derby Porcelain Manufactory, William Duesbury & Co., Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

About 1770 - 1780

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Large solid light blue jasper monteith with applied white jasper relief decoration with a band of guilloche around the foot and icicles around the lower body, the main body with a frieze of fruiting grapevines held by small paterae, the neck with leafy lotus motifs, the upper edge wavy to accommodate wine glass stems and decorated with a band of guilloche, with two molded handles with dash and dot around the edge, below the handles are applied white jasper leaf ornaments.
Small asparagus shell of white soft-paste porcelain with low vertical, scalloped sides that taper towards one end, open at both ends to allow bundles of asparagus spears to be contained inside, the interior printed sideways in underglaze blue in the "Fisherman" or "Pleasure Boat" pattern, above and below the printed scene and on the interior and exterior sides a border of small blue square elements with a white dot in the middle above a repeating C-scroll and dot pattern.
Statuette on tall base.
Oval blue jasper medallion with profile portrait of Priestley (1733-1804) was an 18th-century English theologian, English Dissenters clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, innovative grammarian, multi-subject educator, and liberal political theorist who published over 150 works.