Object Number 1960.0326.031 A, B

Object Name

Tureen (Sauce tureen)

Category

Ceramics

Credit Line/Donor

Gift of Henry Francis du Pont

Place of Origin

Jingdezhen, China, Asia

Date

1800-1810

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Upper surface, lid (twice); Body, exterior (twice); Handwritten in gilded, Roman letters "MAS"
2. Label; Underside, within footrim; Rectangular, paper label with canted corners and a red border with "Dentr 3/ #6" handwritten in pencil.

Subjects

Maritime

Materials

Porcelain (hard-paste); Lime (alkaline) glaze

Techniques

Molded, Enameled, Painted, Gilded

Dimensions (inches)

5.394 (H) , 7.598 (L) , 5.079 (W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

13.7 (H) , 19.3 (L) , 12.9 (W)

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Palmer, Arlene. 1976 A Winterthur Guide to Chinese Export Porcelain.
• Information about original owner, p. 108
[Book] Howard, David Sanctuary. 1984 New York and the China Trade. 142 p.
• Discussion of ship themed decoration, p. 110, Fig. c60
[Book] Litzenburg, Thomas V. & Bailey, Ann T. 2003 Chinese Export Porcelain in the Reeves Center Collection at Washington and Lee University. 288 p.
• Examples of marine themed Chinese export porcelain, pp. 207-212
[Book] Herbert, Peter & Schiffer, Nancy N. 1980 China for America: Export Porcelain of the 18th and 19th Centuries. 223 p.
• Marine decoration, pp.153-166