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Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Tureen Cover

ca. 1765-1780 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Oval tureen cover, naturalistically modelled as a shell (the ribbing picked out in pink) surmounted by a handle formed as an eel and other fish, painted with bouquets of flowers


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted in colours
Brief description
Earthenware tureen cover, painted in colours, made by Veuve Perrin pottery factory, Marseilles, ca. 1765-1780
Physical description
Oval tureen cover, naturalistically modelled as a shell (the ribbing picked out in pink) surmounted by a handle formed as an eel and other fish, painted with bouquets of flowers
Credit line
Given by C. H. Campbell, Esq.
Production
Acquired as Marseilles, factory of Joseph Robert, middle of the 18th century. For a closely related piece attributed to the Veuve Perrin factory see Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Moustiers and Marseilles - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1998, pp. 115.
Collection
Accession number
C.262-1921

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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