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Tureen
(1756-1758)
- Medium
- porcelain (soft-paste)
- Measurements
- (a-b) 8.2 × 12.2 × 8.9 cm (overall)
- 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
- 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
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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.
