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Tureen
(1756-1758)
Medium
porcelain (soft-paste)
Measurements
(a-b) 8.2 × 12.2 × 8.9 cm (overall)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Patricia Begg OAM Bequest, 2024
© Public Domain
Gallery location
17th & 18th Century Decorative Arts & Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
This small tureen is in the form of a nesting partridge. The eighteenth-century fashion for such zoomorphic vessels began with Meissen and was then copied by Chelsea, closely followed by other English porcelain factories such as Bow, Worcester and Longton Hall. It is not clear in what context this partridge tureen would have been used; it may have been intended for serving soup as part of the main dinner course or for stewed fruit or creams as part of the dessert course.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Inscription
(a) painted (vertically) in brown on inside of base c.: 7
Accession Number
2024.262.a-b
Department
International Decorative Arts