Description
A 19th Century Jacob Petit Fontainebleau Lidded Navette-shaped ‘Trompe l’oeil’ Tureen. The polychrome lid moulded with an extravagant display of vegetables: a bunch of asparagus, an artichoke, various squash, beans, onions, carrots, radishes etc. nestled amongst mossy foliage on a basket weave base, 8” (20 cm) high, 14” x 6” (36 cm x 15 cm).