Soup Tureen, Cover, and Stand
Manufacturer
Sceaux Pottery and Porcelain Manufactory
(French, 1748 - 1794)
Dateca. 1748-1763
MediumTin-glazed earthenware (faience)
DimensionsOverall: 11 7/8 × 17 7/8 × 14 inches (30.15 × 45.39 × 35.56 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number83-43 A-C
On View
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DescriptionEach piece exuberantly moulded with scrolling cartouches picked out in iron-red and issuing moulded floral sprays, the centers painted with bouquets, the cover surmounted by putto removing an arrow from the mouth of a snarling dragon, the handles of the tureen in the form of winged dragons.Exhibition HistoryLuxury and Passion: Inventing French Porcelain, The
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, August 13 2022–August 12
2024, no cat.
The frothy, curling forms of this soup tureen evoke the fashionable style of the mid-1700s in France. Now called rococo, the style emphasized asymmetry and curves. The god Cupid subduing a dragon at the top reminds viewers that love conquers all, even hunger.
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