A creamware dessert tureen and cover from the 'Baltic Set Dinner Service', circa 1802
Of oval shape, on a fixed stand, enamelled with borders of oak leaves and acorns reserving panels inscribed 'Nelson', 'the Glorious 1st of August', 'the San Josef', 'Aboukir' and '14th Feby', the cover and sides of the tureen with a fouled anchor within a wreath and 'Nelson, 2nd April, Baltic', 19.7cm wide, incised '3' to stand, incised '4' to cover and 'No92' in brown script (2)
Footnotes:
The 'Baltic Set' dinner service is well documented in the Trickey inventory that lists the 'plate, china, glass &c. belonging to Lady Hamilton', which in 1813 was in store with her creditors. The inventory records the component parts of the creamware dinner service, and it also lists the matching 'Tea Service' and 'Dessert Service'. But there is a problem relating the present lot to any of the entries in the Trickey inventory. The dinner service, as listed in 1813, included four Sauce Tureens, Covers & Stands. Two of these are presumed to be the small tureens offered as lot 75 in this sale.

The shape of the present lot is a vessel usually found as part of a dessert service rather than a dinner service. There was a separate 'Baltic Set Dessert Service' among Emma Hamilton's possessions, but as explained elsewhere in this catalogue, this matching dessert service was of French porcelain, and not creamware. This creamware dessert tureen appears to be an additional piece.