Cane Soup Tureens

A hand-painted Italian majolica cabbageware or lettuceware bird and cauliflower tureen with lid and ladle. This petite ceramic serving dish will be ...

Dodie Thayer Lettuce Ware Tureen, Cover and Stand, Jupiter, Florida, 1987 The tureen, cover and conforming stand are naturalistically modeled as a head of lettuce, hand-built in gla...

Chinese Export Famille Rose Porcelain Tureen, Cover & Stand, Hare-Head Handles Qianlong Period, Circa 1765 This Chinese export porcelain soup tureen, cover and stand is painted in t...

20th Century Faiancas Belo Portuguese Majolica Cabbage Leaf Soup Tureen with Lid and Underplate. Features a charming and sculptural cabbage-form ceramic soup tureen with matching lid...

Charming antique Victorian large porcelain tureen, having a quality antique 19th century tureen decorated with beautiful flowers and leaves in w...

Your next dinner party just got interesting. This large ceramic duck tureen is just what your table has been asking for. Created from ceramic, this piece is shaped like a duck. The top consists of the top of the bird's body which is removable to cover the food kept inside. The base is oval and large enough to hold nearly any kind of dish your heart desires. A ceramic ladle...

A beautifully refined pair of late 19th century Minton porcelain lidded tureens, featuring an exquisite chinoiserie scene rendered in metallic gold, white, and silver. The delicate d...

Gorgeous 19th century French Napoleon III caneware game pie dish or tureen with lid and original liner adorned with fowl. Game pie dishes were used in th...

This pretty little earthenware soup tureen dates from the 19th century, and is hand-painted in classic blue and white. Upon closer inspection, however, the decoration on both bowl an...

A pair of Italian majolica boar and stag head tureens, mid 20th century. 16 ½ inches wide by 11 inches deep by 10 inches tall

Chinese export Armorial-style Porcelain Soup Tureen. Tureen features rare matching cover and underplate. This elegant piece features double boar-head handles and finely painted flora...

English Bone China Trompe L’oeil Melon Tureen, Probably Minton, Circa 1825–1835 This English bone china tureen and cover is modeled in trompe l’oeil as a ripe melon, oval and ribbed, its segments washed in bands of bright green and yellow over a netted, pebbled skin molded in relief. The cover is surmounted by a gnarled stalk handle, its end cut square to show the rings of the stem, from which spring curling tendrils and heart-shaped serrated leaves veined in puce, lying across the top of the fruit, and a short stalk is modeled at one end of the body. Both parts are glazed plain white inside, and the cover seats on a raised inner flange. The model follows the melon tureens made at Meissen and taken up at Chelsea and Longton Hall in the 1750s, and the flat base carries a faint crossed-swords mark in underglaze blue in imitation of Meissen. Marks of this kind were used on English bone china in the second quarter of the nineteenth century, when the rococo taste for naturalistic table wares returned to fashion. Minton applied a pseudo-Meissen crossed swords in underglaze blue to its ornamental porcelain of this period, as on the flower-encrusted pen tray presented to Princess Victoria on her fourteenth birthday in 1833, now in the Royal Collection, and the factory’s surviving design books of the early 1830s record ornaments and dishes filled with modeled porcelain fruits and vegetables. Coalport, whose encrusted wares are often confused with Minton’s, also used a crossed-swords mark, and remains the principal alternative. Another tureen of this model was sold at Sotheby’s, New York, on 26 September 1998, to the decorator Mario Buatta. Dimensions Height: 5 inches (12.7 cm) Width: 6¼ inches (15.9 cm) Depth: 4 inches (10.2 cm) Marks Faint crossed swords in underglaze blue on the flat base, in imitation of the Meissen mark. Provenance Private Maryland Collection Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge Condition Excellent, the green and yellow enamels bright and glossy; a tiny chip to one side of the cover rim, invisibly repaired. References Geoffrey A. Godden, Minton Pottery & Porcelain of the First Period, 1793–1850 (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1968). Geoffrey A. Godden, Coalport and Coalbrookdale Porcelains (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1970; rev. ed. Woodbridge: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1981). Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 41596: Minton porcelain pen tray...