18th-Century Creamware Sauce Tureen Puce-Decorated by Neale & Co.

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The large eighteenth-century Neale & Co. creamware sauce tureen, cover, stand and ladle are each decorated in puce transfer with … more The large eighteenth-century Neale & Co. creamware sauce tureen, cover, stand and ladle are each decorated in puce transfer with figures amongst classical ruins. The rims also with a painted shell-edge puce border highlighted with the strong remnants of original gilding.

Dimensions: 7 inches high x 10 1/2 inches wide x 7 1/4 inches; The under dish: 10 1/2 inches by 7 1/4 inches; The tureen 8 1/2 inches wide x 6 inches x 7 inches high

Reference: Neale Pottery & Porcelain: Its Predecessors and Successors iana Edwards, page 126, #100 for a large stand from the same service from the Division of Ceramics & Glass, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. acc no. 65.48. The author writes on page 133 that shell-edged wares and other enamelled rim-decorated wares in turquoise, puce or black, often embellished with a central transfer-printed panel, constituted a sizable portion of the decoration on creamware... less