Tureen with Cover and Stand
Chinese export porcelain (China)
c. 1787–90
- Medium
- Hard-paste porcelain, glaze, with enamels in colors, and gilding
- Classification
- Ceramics
- Dimensions
- Tureen: 21 × 32.1 × 21 cm (8 1/4 × 12 5/8 × 8 1/4 in.); Stand: 5.4 × 33 × 25.1 cm (2 1/8 × 13 × 9 7/8 in.)
- Culture
- China
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Anonymous gift in memory of Chauncey McCormick
- 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 tureen is from a service owned by Elias Morgan (1770–1812) of Connecticut. The Morgan set, displaying the coat of arms originally used by his Welsh ancestors, is one of the few armorial services made for the American market.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
