Project de Sculpture en Argent d'un Grand Surtout de Table et les Deux Terrines...Executée pour Millord Kingston in 1735 (Design for Centerpiece and Two Tureens for the Duke of Kingston in 1735) plate 115 in Œuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier

The tureens are the visual elements for the crowning figures of the surtout. The shape of the lid of the tureens is adapted from the form of a sea-shell, upon which the animals and vegetables are placed to harmonize with the oval tureen and its plateau. The plateau is an asymmetric cartouche; vegetables are integrated into the plateau's undulating border of concave and convex forms.