Chinese Export Porcelain Early Blue & White Soup Tureen, Cover & Stand,

After a Northern European Baroque Silver Form,

Circa 1740-50  

The rare Chinese Export porcelain tureen is of a quatrefoil bombé shape and is painted on both sides with an Oriental garden with plants and flowers with a zig-zag fence.  The handles are in the form of grotesque masks.  The cover in the form of an open-work coronet finial.  

Dimensions: 12 3/4 inches high x 16 inches wide x 12 3/4 inches deep  

(Ref NY9492-iupr)