The oval sauce tureen with part-fluted upper body and gadrooned rim, with fluted handles springing from lion heads, engraved on one side of the body with a foliate monogram below a coronet, the low domed cover with inner beaded border centering two palmettes and reeded handle terminating in lion heads, all raised on the backs of four winged and hooded lions, the oval fixed stand with gadrooned and beaded borders and scrolled acanthus handles, marked throughout
10¹⁄₂ in. (26.6 cm.) long, over handles
68 oz. 4 dwt. (2,121 gr.)

João de Bragança (1767-1826), King of Portugal, thence by descent to,
Manuel Il (1889-1930), King of Portugal and his wife Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern (1890-1966), Queen of Portugal, who married secondly Count Robert Douglas von Langenstein (1880-1955), his collection sold,
Gallerie Jürg Stucker, Bern, 1973.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 6 March 1997, lot 141.

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