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

Tureen and Cover

ca. 1765-1790 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Body of rococo form with undulating outline and scroll handles and feet, the cover similarly ornamented and with handle formed as naturalistic twigs with lemons and a fig (?), both parts painted with floral sprays and with the rococo scrollwork picked out in pink


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Tureen Body
  • Tureen Cover
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted in colours
Physical description
Body of rococo form with undulating outline and scroll handles and feet, the cover similarly ornamented and with handle formed as naturalistic twigs with lemons and a fig (?), both parts painted with floral sprays and with the rococo scrollwork picked out in pink
Credit line
Given by C. H. Campbell, Esq.
Production
Acquired as Marseilles, factory of Joseph Robert, mid-18th century; relabelled 'perhaps factory of Joseph Robert'. For a similar tureen with the factory mark see Musées de Marseille, La Faïence de Marseille au XVIIIe siècle: La manufacture de la Veuve Perrin, 1991, exhibition catalogue, no. 73, and for a related one dated to c. 1765-end of 18th century see Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Moustiers and Marseilles - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1998, p. 106 top.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.259&A-1921

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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