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Sauce Tureen
Sauce Tureen

Sauce Tureen

Date1825-1850
MediumDrape-molded Chinese export porcelain with underglaze cobalt blue decoration
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (height x width x depth): 2 x 6 3/16 x 4 5/8in. (5.1 x 15.7 x 11.7cm)
ClassificationsCeramics
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Lloyd E. Russell and Charles Burnham Warner
DescriptionRectangular, heavy, green-tinted Chinese export porcelain sauce tureen with hand-painted underglaze cobalt blue decoration showing a Chinese landscape. The central Chinese landscape consists of a willow tree with a Chinese structure and fenced-in yard to the right. The tree overlooks a small figure fishing in a river, where a Chinese junk floats. There are houses and hills in the distance. This landscape is found hand-painted on both long sides of the sauce tureen. The sauce tureen also has two molded and applied handles, painted in cobalt blue, in the shape of an animal head. At one time these handles also held metal rings, however, the slots to hold the rings are now empty.

The sauce tureen is missing its lid. It has two chips in the rim.
Object number1961.51.1
Subject Terms
    On View
    Not on view
    Sauce Tureen and Tray
    Unknown
    mid 19th century
    Sauce Tureen and Tray
    Unknown
    late 18th-early 19th century
    Sauce Tureen
    Unknown
    late 18th-early 19th century
    Sauce Tureen
    Staffordshire potteries
    about 1820
    1945.1.1396.2a-c
    Unknown
    1800-1810
    Sauce Tureen and Tray
    Riley Fortune Goodrich
    1830-1850
    Soup Tureen
    Unknown
    1800-1880
    Soup Tureen
    Unknown
    mid 19th century
    Sauce Tureen
    Staffordshire potteries
    1820-1840
    Sauce Tureen
    Thomas Mayer
    1826-1836
    Sauce Tureen and Tray
    Thomas, John & Joseph Mayer
    about 1850
    Soup Tureen and Tray
    Unknown
    late 18th-early 19th century