Covered Tureen (Terrine ancienne or Terrine ordinaire) (c. 1752): Art, History and Details

Covered Tureen (Terrine ancienne or Terrine ordinaire) (c. 1752) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Louis-Denis Armand (French, active c. 1745–1783); Vincennes Porcelain Factory (France, 1740–56).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The intricately painted birds that decorate this tureen are the work of Louis-Denis Armand. Armand was known for his depictions of birds and landscapes, a specialty that may have come from his work as a painter of lacquered furniture with similar compositions. This tureen was likely designed by master goldsmith Jean-Claude Duplessis who began working as an artistic director at the Vincennes Porcelain Factory in 1748.

Object facts

• Title: Covered Tureen (Terrine ancienne or Terrine ordinaire)
• Date: c. 1752
• Creator attribution: Louis-Denis Armand (French, active c. 1745–1783); Vincennes Porcelain Factory (France, 1740–56)
• Culture: France, Vincennes
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: soft-paste porcelain with enamel and gilt decoration
• Dimensions: Overall: 25.8 x 38.5 cm (10 3/16 x 15 3/16 in.); Container: 15.4 cm (6 1/16 in.)
• Collection: Decorative Arts
• Department: Decorative Art and Design
• Accession number: 1952.3

A detail from the museum

This object was manufactured in soft-paste porcelain, a material used by many European porcelain factories before they were able to emulate the hard-paste porcelain of China and Japan.

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Foote, Helen S. "Vincennes and Meissen Porcelain." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 39 (June 1952).
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
• Hawley, Henry. "Vincennes-Sèvres Porcelain at the Cleveland Museum of Art." Antiques LXXXV (March 1964).

View the collection record

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