Tureen
c. 1815
19th Century
Artist/Maker Unknown,
Object Type:
Decorative Art
Medium and Support:
porcelain
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of the Old Lyme-Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library, from the Evelyn MacCurdy Salisbury Ceramics Collection
Accession Number:
1959.185.a&b
A Chinese export porcelain tureen with an underglaze blue deocration in a variation of the Willow pattern. The handles of the tureen are shaped like a boar's head. This type of porcelain is called Canton after the port from which it was shipped.