Two Sauceboats and Two Covered Tureens from the Washington Memorial Service
Chinese export porcelain (China)
c. 1800
- Medium
- Hard-paste porcelain and glaze with gilding
- Classification
- Ceramics
- Culture
- China
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Herbert A. Vance and an anonymous donor
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Chinese porcelain made especially for export to the United States often displays painted imagery of subjects that appealed to wealthy American consumers, including armorials and marine scenes and commemorations of importnat events. Part of a larger suite, these four pieces were commissioned around 1800 in remembrance of the nation’s first president who died in 1799. Symbols such as the weeping willow, tomb, and eagle, all depicted on these wares, reflect the contemporary mourning for Washington.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
