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Tureen and Cover

ca. 1770 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Lobed, circular, with cover handles naturalistically modelled as vegetables, and with scrolled handles to the cover; enamelled with flowers in puce

Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Tureen Body
  • Tureen Cover
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels
Brief description
F, P, NIDERVILLER, 18

F, P, NIDERVILLER, 18
Physical description
Lobed, circular, with cover handles naturalistically modelled as vegetables, and with scrolled handles to the cover; enamelled with flowers in puce
Marks and inscriptions
interlaced 'C's painted in black enamel
Credit line
Given by C. H. Campbell, Esq.
Production
For a similar tureen in Niderviller faience dated to the Bayerlé period of management, c. 1765-70, see Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, exhibition catalogue, 'Faïences Françaies, XVIe-XVIIIe siècles', 1980, cat. 238.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
W. B. Honey, French Porcelain (1950 and 1972), pl. 88b, where dated to about 1775
Collection
Accession number
C.307&A-1921

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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