Soup Tureen

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Soup Tureen

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The first true tureen of earthenware appeared about in year 1740; examples in salt glaze are known from 1750; and by 1760 the tureen was an established piece in English dinner services. The Worcester pottery probably began to produce them about that year and, presumably, the other British manufacturers did likewise. Undoubtedly, samples were quickly taken to China so that shortly tureens of Oriental Lowestoft, both with armorial decoration and other ornamentation, reached the European market.

Using Soup-Tureen is an elegant way to serve hearty soup. Soup-Tureen often in broad, deep, oval vessel shape with fixed handles and a low domed cover with a knob or handle.

Over the centuries, soup-tureens are in many kind of forms, some of them are in round, rectangular, or made into fanciful shapes such as animals or wildfowl.

Soup-Tureens may made of ceramic or glazed earthenware called faience or porcelain or silver, and customarily they stand on an undertray or platter made en suite.

Soup-Tureens are norm for serving about 6 people. In 18th century France, a small individual covered standing bowl on a small platter, essentially an individual tureen, was called an écuelle. It could be lifted by its twin handles and drunk from directly.

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