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Metropolitan Museum of Art has an early 19th century Chinese export porcelain tureen in its collection. The porcelain tureen was produced in Qing dynasty china for export to the United States as part of the Old China Trade; as such, the work features both Chinese depictions of leaves, greenery and an eagle (a symbol of the United States) bearing a shield, olive branch, and arrows. [1]
A Sèvres soup tureen and tray. Sèvres porcelain, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia Silver-gilt tureen, Paris, 1769–70 An Émile Gallé (1846–1904) tureen. A tureen is a serving dish for foods such as soups or stews, often shaped as a broad, deep, oval vessel with fixed handles and a low domed cover with a knob or handle. Over the ...
Exterior of the KPM building in 2009. The Royal Porcelain Factory in Berlin (German: Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur, abbreviated as KPM), also known as the Royal Porcelain Manufactory Berlin and whose products are generally called Berlin porcelain, was founded in 1763 by King Frederick II of Prussia (known as Frederick the Great).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art possesses in its collection a gilt-silver tureen from the Napoleonic era.Designed by Charles Percier, Pierre François Léonard Fontaine and made by Martin-Guillaume Biennais, the tureen was given to Napoleon I by his sister Pauline and her husband, Prince Camillo Borghese.
Original file (2,000 × 1,475 pixels, file size: 1.81 MB, ... Silver Tureen by Etienne-Jacques Marcq (MET, 1975.1.2561a, b) Items portrayed in this file
Part of the Möllendorff Dinner Service, about 1762 designed by Frederick II the Great, King of Prussia (1712-1786) V&A Museum no. C.238-1921:Soup tureen from the Mollendorff service, c. 1751 The Möllendorff Dinner Service of Meissen porcelain was designed in about 1762 by Frederick II the Great , King of Prussia (1712–86), in collaboration ...
Surviving plate from the Swan Service, ca. 1738 Detail of a tureen stand, with the swan motif Stand for a tureen, c. 1737–41. A service on such a scale and with such lavish sculptural elements was unprecedented; a later large Meissen service, the Möllendorff Dinner Service of the 1760s had under 1,000 pieces.
A tureen is a serving dish for foods such as soups or stews. Tureen may also refer to: Tom Tureen (born 1945), American lawyer; See also.