Rococo scroll ornament, pierced heater, with spirit lamp in centre. Date 1825. (_By courtesy of Walter H. Willson, Esq._)] Another Soup Tureen illustrated (p. 225) is of oval form with massive handles suggesting those of an urn. It carries its heavy decoration well, but the base is too rococo with its swirling curves. This example has a pierced heater with spirit lamp in centre. This is in date 1825, when Canning "called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old." [Illustration: OLD SHEFFIELD PLATED TUREEN. With floral repoussé decoration and four spirally fluted scroll legs. Cover richly chased and gadrooned, surmounted by ball. Date 1815. (_In the collection of B. B. Harrison, Esq._)] An interesting Tureen exhibiting the restlessness of _motifs_ and the travail of the artist in his search for new designs is exemplified in the specimen illustrated (p. 229) where an excellence of technique is at once apparent. There is a beauty and a grace in the cover with its delicate incised chain ornament, its _repoussé_ floral design and the striking godroon edge. The cover is surmounted by a ball on a leaf base. On the body the raised design, especially with the fruit and foliage, resembles that found on posset pots of the seventeenth century, but it is marred by an unfortunate leaf in the centre with a rib so prominent as to suggest casting. This is an undoubted blemish in ornament as the eye cannot leave this spot. But a bold attempt to win originality is shown in the legs and feet, which are of a curious and striking floral design, boldly _rococo_ and somewhat Italianate in character; at first glance one expects to find them to be cherubs. Entrée Dishes are always, when at their best, ripe with well-conceived and well-balanced ornament. The illustration (p. 233) shows a specimen, one of a set of four, with delightful design. The richly ornamented rims and the finely considered balance in regard to the double-tier effect make this especially acceptable. The cover has a finely ribbed effect which catches the play of light and displays its full effect and the ribs are so unobtrusive as almost to escape notice, but the full bodied effect is carried out to perfection. Another example of a later date, 1825, stands on its fine perforated ornament in the body. The feet are somewhat close together, and are made to appear more so by the dome-like cover swelling almost pear-shaped to an apex decorated by a cone. It is an unusual form, and free, notwithstanding its idiosyncrasies, from the glaring evils of elaborate and feeble decoration found at a slightly later date which impoverished design for the next thirty years. [Illustration: OLD SHEFFIELD PLATED ENTRÉE DISH. One of four, with heavy ornament of scroll design. Date 1815. (_By courtesy of Walter H. Willson, Esq._)] [Illustration: OLD SHEFFIELD PLATED ENTRÉE DISH. With bulbous cover surmounted by rose. Date 1825.