ANTIQUE STAFFORDSHIRE BLUE & WHITE TRANSFERWARE SAUCE TUREEN

CONDITION

✓ Genuine antique condition with wear consistent with considerable age

✓ Overall crazing visible throughout the glazed surfaces

✓ Chip / glaze loss visible to the rim of the tureen

✓ Further small chips, nibbles and areas of glaze loss around the lid and edges

✓ Age-related staining, discolouration and surface marks

✓ Some firing imperfections and transfer-print irregularities typical of early manufacture

✓ Finial remains present to the lid

✓ Matching blue and white ladle is included

✓ Please study all photographs carefully as they form an important part of the condition description


DETAILS

✓ Antique English blue and white transferware

✓ Likely Staffordshire manufacture

✓ Early-to-mid 19th century

✓ Circa 1820–1850

✓ Footed sauce tureen / covered serving dish

✓ Matching fitted lid

✓ Matching transfer-decorated serving ladle

✓ Purpose-made ladle aperture in the cover

✓ Twin moulded side handles

✓ Raised pedestal foot

✓ Traditional Blue Willow / Chinoiserie-inspired landscape decoration

✓ Detailed scenes include pagodas, pavilions, bridges, trees, boats, figures and birds

✓ Elaborate geometric and floral border decoration

✓ Interior of the tureen also carries blue transfer decoration

✓ Ladle bowl is decorated internally with a matching landscape scene

✓ Attractive early example of English transfer-printed tableware

✓ No maker attribution is being made unless a factory mark can be confirmed


SIZE / MEASUREMENTS

✓ Measurements to be added