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A silver tureen covered in carved flowers, shell texture, and snakes.

Cream or Milk Jug

1688 - 1751

Paul De Lamerie

British

Cast, the shell-shaped body on openwork tri-form foot formed as an entwined snake, the sides resembling the flutes and spiralling of a shell with foliage descending from the rim, the front with a lizard, the openwork handle formed as a trailing leafy tendril hended by a flowerhead set assymetrically to the body.

Silver

George II (1727-1760)

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