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Sauce tureen and cover, soft-paste trident porcelain, three paw feet, drum base the sides sprigged with strips of stylised foliate decoration alternating with flower heads, the bowl on a trumpet shaped foot and with three moulded lion heads under a ringed and waisted collar neck, everted rim, shallow domed stepped cover with an acorn finial; richly enamelled and gilt, the bowl and cover painted with a continuous band of naturalistic garden flowers including morning glory, pink roses, a purple and yellow tulip and blue bells, the upper side of the drum base with pink roses, blue and purple convolvulus etc; gilt bands - of fruiting vine around the foot, leaves around the collar, and scrolls and bell flowers around the cover; narrow gilt bands outlining drum base, around foot, outlining collar neck, around rims, on cover step etc; gilt paw feet, lion masks

This cream tureen is based on type made by several porcelain factories in Paris during the early nineteenth century. It is painted with a band of garden flowers including morning glory, pink roses and tulips. The Swansea factory was celebrated for the quality of its flower painting and this is probably the work of David Evans, who later worked at Grainger's in Worcester and in Staffordshire.