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This early example of Worcester Royal porcelain has multiple panels featuring pheasants and foliage. The lid is topped with a naturalistic green apple with stem and leaves while the edges are trimmed in pink. Oftentimes, tureens and dinnerware were decorated with imagery that referenced the intended dish contained within; for example, in this tureen, one could potentially expect to find a dish made of pheasant.
The English were late to enter porcelain manufacture, founding their first porcelain manufactory in the 1740s. Because the Germans and French already had successful factories, the English closely followed the designs of their continental rivals. This tureen uses the blue scale ground decoration seen in designs from Vincennes in France. The French had copied the pattern from the Germans, who had adapted it from the Chinese. The Germans were the first Europeans to produce porcelain on a large scale. At Meissen in 1709, they succeeded in replicating the Chinese technique of mixing together a refined white clay (kaolin) and feldspathic rock (pentuntse) to produce porcelain.
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DMA unpublished material, Museum of Europe Label Text, 1993.
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Until 1986: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. James and Margaret Coleman, Dallas Texas
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[1] See Deed of Gift in Collections Records Object File (1986.251.a-b)
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General Description
This early example of Worcester Royal porcelain has multiple panels featuring pheasants and foliage. The lid is topped with a naturalistic green apple with stem and leaves while the edges are trimmed in pink. Oftentimes, tureens and dinnerware were decorated with imagery that referenced the intended dish contained within; for example, in this tureen, one could potentially expect to find a dish made of pheasant.
The English were late to enter porcelain manufacture, founding their first porcelain manufactory in the 1740s. Because the Germans and French already had successful factories, the English closely followed the designs of their continental rivals. This tureen uses the blue scale ground decoration seen in designs from Vincennes in France. The French had copied the pattern from the Germans, who had adapted it from the Chinese. The Germans were the first Europeans to produce porcelain on a large scale. At Meissen in 1709, they succeeded in replicating the Chinese technique of mixing together a refined white clay (kaolin) and feldspathic rock (pentuntse) to produce porcelain.
Adapted from
DMA unpublished material, Museum of Europe Label Text, 1993.
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- This note was tagged #draft by Megan Wanttie, summer 2016 and harvested to Brain and Google Docs. I am removing the #draft tag and replacing it with #incomplete so that the note can be reviewed for formatting, tags, and text. The existing #drafts in Brain and Google Docs are on a list to be deleted. I am also adding department tags so that the note can be routed. (EAS, 08/26/2016)
- updated geo x refs and provenance
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Until 1986: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. James and Margaret Coleman, Dallas Texas
From 1986: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of the above [1]
[1] See Deed of Gift in Collections Records Object File (1986.251.a-b)
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