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Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
The Merchant Adventurers has accumulated all sorts of momentos over the centuries.
This oval shaped soup tureen commemorates a race meeting. It is decorated with panels of acanthus leaf intersected by bulrush plants. At the base of the tureen is a band of concave fluting, each side having a scroll-shaped cartouche. One of these is engraved:
'York Meeting August 1824. Earl of Scarborough, Lord Milton M.P. and Jas Wortley Esq. , M.P. Stewards'.
The other cartouche is engraved:
'Won by Angler August 21 1824'
The dome covering the belly of the tureen is also fluted and features a standing horse on top which also forms a handle. The tureen may be found in the Governor's Parlour.
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