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Tureen
Gorham Manufacturing Company (Providence)
1883
- Medium
- Silver
- Classification
- Metalwork
- Dimensions
- 23.5 × 21.6 × 26.7 cm (9 1/4 × 8 1/2 × 10 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Providence
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Mary Swissler Oldberg Fund
- 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
This exuberant tureen exemplifies the highly imaginative and technically advanced hollowware that made Gorham one of the leading silver manufacturers in the 19th century. In 1869 the firm was the first major American silver company to introduce Japanese-inspired designs into their product line, ahead of competitors like Tiffany and Company. This vessel features aquatic motifs, likely drawn from Japanese prints: giant carp and a turtle, articulated in deep relief, thrash in violent waters, while the undulating body of the tureen itself suggests the movement of the sea.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
