Description:
English creamware, press-molded melon shaped sugar bowl (commonly called a tureen) for the dessert on an attached leaf-shaped stand with a molded foliate design around the handle ends of both the domed cover and tureen. Sugar bowls formed in the shape of melons were popular during the second half of the 18th century. These ceramics in the shape of fruits and vegetables are typically rococo in style, and the fashion for them declined rapidly with the rise of the neoclassical style. The cover has a small melon finial over five wide, plain lobes running lengthwise along the cover, and a cut-out for a ladle at the handle end. The press-molded leaf stand has a 'ruffled' edge and double -looped ring handles, one of which is attached to the lobed body that has a small molded melon flower head at the top end just below the rim edge. There is an incised "9" or "6" inside the lid. According to ceramics dealer John Howard, each tureen was decorated in a slightly different manner with trailing vines, grapes, leaves, reticulation, etc.. as a device to signify different sauces. See the Whitehead pattern book, plate 45, no. 76.
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