Bidspirit auction | A Moustiers F.H Faience Soup

A Moustiers F.H Faience Soup Tureen and Underplate - A French faience soup tureen and matching underplate, featuring hand-painted polychrome decoration on a white tin-glazed ground. The tureen is of circular form with a spreading pedestal foot and two scroll handles. The high-domed lid is topped with a moulded foliate finial. The set is decorated with bird of paradise motifs, depicting exotic birds perched on grassy mounds, surrounded by various floral bouquets and scattered sprigs in a palette of yellow, green, and blue. The rims of the tureen, lid, and underplate are finished with a double-banded border in yellow and green. The interior base of the tureen bears a hand-painted mark in black script reading MOUSTIERS. F.H.