Sauce Tureen and Cover thumbnail 1
On display

Sauce Tureen and Cover

1925 (designed and made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Porcelain sauce tureen and cover with a stem base and two handles, each handle has a stylised crest appendage at the bottom, a knob of similar design surmounted on the cover; decorated with painted birds and plants and gilding.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Bowl Body
  • Bowl Cover
Materials and techniques
Porcelain with painted and gilded decoration
Brief description
Sauce tureen and cover, part of a tableware range, porcelain with painted and gilded decoration, shape designed by Christian Joachim, decorated by Arno Malinowski, manufactured by Royal Copenhagen, Denmark, 1925.
Physical description
Porcelain sauce tureen and cover with a stem base and two handles, each handle has a stylised crest appendage at the bottom, a knob of similar design surmounted on the cover; decorated with painted birds and plants and gilding.
Marks and inscriptions
  • ‘ROYAL COPENHAGEN DENMARK’ around a crown (Printed in green)
  • Three wavy lines (Painted in blue)
  • '734.12449 BGX' (Painted in green)
Object history
Part of a tableware range, Circ.274&A, 275-1939.

These items form part of a service shown
in the Paris Exhibition of 1925, where the
Danish artists Joachim and Malinowski
were awarded a prize for the design.
Bibliographic reference
Opie, Jennifer Hawkins. Scandinavia: ceramics & glass in the twentieth century. London: V&A Publications, 1989. 39 p. ISBN 1851770712.
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.274&A-1939

About this object record

Explore the Collections contains over a million catalogue records, and over half a million images. It is a working database that includes information compiled over the life of the museum. Some of our records may contain offensive and discriminatory language, or reflect outdated ideas, practice and analysis. We are committed to addressing these issues, and to review and update our records accordingly.

You can write to us to suggest improvements to the record.

Suggest feedback

Record createdSeptember 25, 2008
Record URL
Download as: JSON