Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Tureen

ca. 1775 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Oval, lobed tureen with angular handles, the cover with apple branch finial and scalloped edges picked out in carmine, both parts painted in enamel colours with stylised birds on carmine rococo scrolls, and scattered flowers


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Tureen Body
  • Tureen Cover
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in enamels
Brief description
Oval tureen and cover of tin-glazed earthenware painted in enamels, made by Aprey pottery factory, France, about 1775
Physical description
Oval, lobed tureen with angular handles, the cover with apple branch finial and scalloped edges picked out in carmine, both parts painted in enamel colours with stylised birds on carmine rococo scrolls, and scattered flowers
Credit line
Bequeathed by Stuart Gerald Davis
Production
Acquired as Aprey, c. 1765; for teapot with similar painting dated to c. 1775 see Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Strasbourg & Niderviller - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1999, p. 144 bottom right.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.244&A-1951

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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