A Rörstrand faience two-handled tureen, cover and stand, dated 1769-70Of lobed oval form, painted with scattered flower sprays, the rims decorated with a manganese feathered border and moulded with scrollwork heightened in yellow, green and manganese, the handles in the shape of scrolling shells, the cover with a leaping deer finial, the stand: 41.4cm long, the tureen: 37.5cm across handles, Rörst 20/6 70 (tureen) and Rörst 19/10 69 (stand) in manganese, painters' marks and numerals in manganese (some old restoration) (3)注脚Provenance:The Thomas Dormandy Collection of European FaienceAnother tureen and stand of the same shape is in the Axel Springer Collection in the Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schleswig, illustrated in H. Lungagnini, Fayence des Ostseeraumes - Sammlung Axel Springer (1998), colour plate 58, no. 30. Another example of the same tureen model with very similar decoration to the present lot, but with a different stand, is illustrated in A. Bæckström, Rörstrand och dess tillverkningar 1726 -1926 (1930), plate XVI. An earlier Rörstrand tureen, cover and stand of slightly similar shape and leaping deer finial is illustrated in Herwig Guratzsch, Fayencen aus dem Ostseeraum (2003), no.40.