A Frankenthal two-handled tureen and cover, circa 1760Of lobed shape moulded with big sprays of flowers, painted in famille rose style, with peacocks amongst stylised rockwork, flowering shrubs, flying insects and bamboo heightened in gilding, the twisting handles in the shape of turned foliage surrounded by pink ribbons ending in scrolling foliate feet, the cover with similar twisting rococo handle, 30cm across handles, rampant lion mark and JH monogram in underglaze-blue, impressed HI, I and further impressed mark (tiny chips) (2)注脚The pattern is based on Chinese export wares. A Frankenthal plate with similar decoration, but more of a pink palette, and its Chinese famille rose counterpart are illustrated in B. Beaucamp-Markowsky, Frankenthaler Porzellan, vol. III (2014), no. 8.An oval tureen of similar shape and with the same decoration as the present lot, presumably from the same service, is in the Erkenbert-Museum in Frankenthal. The matching oval dish is in the Pauls-Eisenbeiss Collection, see E. Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century, vol. II, pp. 210f.