Hybrid paste porcelain circular tureen, cover and stand. Domed cover with a gilded pineapple and serated foliate finial, scrolled gilded handles. Brown ground and gilded rims; the tureen and cover painted with dragons in a stylised garden setting; the stand with Ho-Ho birds on blossoming branches with a star shape central reserve. The order for this dinner service is recorded on 31 July 1816 at a cost of £2,539.1s.0d., a very high sum indeed. This is one of the six 'soup tureens richly gilt' supplied at £24 each.