A LONGTON HALL COS LETTUCE TUREEN, COVER AND A STAND, CIRCA 1755
Auction Closed
January 25, 03:59 AM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A LONGTON HALL COS LETTUCE TUREEN, COVER AND A STAND, CIRCA 1755
naturalistically and crisply modeled as overlapping leaves edged in green, the cover with a cauliflower stalk knop terminating in a small leaf, the interior of tureen and cover painted with leaves, the stand, painted with a small bluebell sprig and an insect
(stand) width 12 in.
30.5 cm
The Estate of Mrs. Ruth Nugent Head, Christie's New York, 8 October 1985, lot 566 (tureen and cover)
Christie's New York, 8 December, 1980, lot 31 (stand)
A second tureen of this form was sold at Sotheby's New York, The Collections of Hanns and Elisabeth Weinberg and The Antique Company of New York, 10-11 November 2006, lot 639. A further lettuce tureen and cover, with its stand, was in the Nelson A. Rockefeller Collection, sold in these rooms on 11 April 1980, lot 50