Tureen
Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory (Austrian, 1718-1744)
c. 1725
- Medium
- Hard-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels, and gilding
- Classification
- Ceramics
- Dimensions
- 14.7 × 22.3 × 19.1 cm (5 3/4 × 8 3/4 × 7 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Vienna
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Applied Arts of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of R. Thornton Wilson in memory of his wife, Florence Ellsworth Wilson
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
This is one of a group of ten tureens of differing size said to have been made for a Prince de Rohan in about 1725. These tureens are among the first to have been made in silver or porcelain, as tureens did not become an essential element in table services until the next decade.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
