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On Display: House - Wisteria Hall
Tureen
1800-1810
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Jingdezhen; China; Asia
Materials
- Porcelain (hard-paste)
- Lime (alkaline) glaze
Museum Object Number
1960.0326.035 A, B
Credit Line/Donor
Gift of Henry Francis du Pont
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Object Number
1960.0326.035 A, B
Object Name
Tureen
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Jingdezhen; China; Asia
Date
1800-1810
Mark/Signature/Inscription/Label
Type: Inscription
Location: Upper surface, lid (twice); Body, exterior (twice)
Inscription: Handwritten in gilded, Roman letters "MAS"
Type: Label
Location: Underside, within footrim
Inscription: Rectangular, paper label with canted corners and a red border with "Top/ Denter/ #4" handwritten in pencil.
Mark/Signature: No
Subject(s)
- Maritime
Materials
- Porcelain (hard-paste)
- Lime (alkaline) glaze
Techniques
- Molded
- Enameled
- Painted
- Gilded
Dimensions (inches)
10.748 (H) x 9.843 (W) x 14.173 (L)
Dimensions (centimeters)
27.3 (H) x 25 (W) x 36 (L)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Palmer, Arlene. 1976 A Winterthur Guide to Chinese Export Porcelain.
• Published: p. 108Book: Howard, David Sanctuary. 1984 New York and the China Trade. 142 p.
• Discussion of ship themed decoration, p. 110, Fig. c60Book: 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. 207-212Book: Herbert, Peter & Schiffer, Nancy N. 1980 China for America: Export Porcelain of the 18th and 19th Centuries. 223 p.
• Marine decoration, pp.153-166