| Maker: Bourne Baker and Bourne Pattern:British Cattle Soup Tureen c1830 This pattern has been found marked BB&B for either Bourne, Baker and Bourne or possibly their sucessors Bourne, Baker and Baker of Fenton Staffordshire. They were brothers and brother-in-law. The British Cattle design is beautifully engraved and printed and depicts the rural scene with a quality akin to a fine oil painting or watercolour.
No maker's backstamp.
A few signs of use, but the glaze is mainly sound, with a little crazing in places, mainly underneath the tureen, where some lines have come together to look like a star crack, but this is in the glaze only. A small glazing blemish inside the tureen and some browning to the glaze especially on the plain white of the side handles, which you sometimes get with old glaze. Dimensions: 37 cm x 25.5 cm 26 cm high / 14.5 ins x 10 ins 10.25 ins high
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