OLD SHEFFIELD PLATED HOT WATER JUGS.
Circular base: lower part of body decorated with star fluting. Cover surmounted by pineapple. Dated 1775.
Urn-shaped body on octagonal foot. Classic ornament. Silver shield. Date 1795.
(In the collection of B. B. Harrison, Esq.
OLD SHEFFIELD PLATED TUREEN.
With floral repoussé decoration and four spirally fluted scroll legs. Cover richly chased and gadrooned, surmounted by ball. Date 1815.
(In the collection of B. B. Harrison, Esq.
An interesting Tureen exhibiting the restlessness of motifs and the travail of the artist in his search for new designs is exemplified in the specimen illustrated (p. [229]) where an excellence of technique is at once apparent. There is a beauty and a grace in the cover with its delicate incised chain ornament, its repoussé floral design and the striking godroon edge. The cover is surmounted by a ball on a leaf base. On the body the raised design, especially with the fruit and foliage, resembles that found on posset pots of the seventeenth century, but it is marred by an unfortunate leaf in the centre with a rib so prominent as to suggest casting. This is an undoubted blemish in ornament as the eye cannot leave this spot. But a bold attempt to win originality is shown in the legs and feet, which are of a curious and striking floral design, boldly rococo and somewhat Italianate in character; at first glance one expects to find them to be cherubs.