An extremely rare and large Bow Twin Handled Tureen and Cover of the Scratch R marked Type, of compressed circular shape with twin hooped handles, painted in the Imari pallette with scrolled foliage and stylised leaves with gilded highlights issuing from holed rockwork, the domed cover with Lion finial.

The largest shape made at Bow in the earliest years of the manufactory, exhibiting the mastery of the 'Silver Taste' and form needed by the early investors and owners of the manufactory, to appeal to the Aristocracy and show the new and novel material of porcelain used in the same way and forms as Silver.