Projet de Sculpture en Argent dun Grand Surtout de Table et les Deux TerrinesExecute pour Millord Kinston sic en 1735 Design for Centerpiece and Two Tureens for the Duke of Kingston in 1735 plate 115 in uvre de JusteAurle Meissonnier. The tureens are the visual elements for the crowning figures of the surtout. The shape of the lid of the tureens is adapted from the form of a sea-shell, upon which the animals and vegetables are placed to harmonize with the oval tureen and its plateau.

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