Tureen with cover (terrine du roi)

Vincennes Manufactory|Jean-Claude Duplessis|Charles Nicolas Dodin

1757 · Soft-paste porcelain · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

This tureen was part of a large dinner service delivered in 1758 to the Danish king Frederik V as a gift of Louis XV. This was the first service to be produced with the newly-developed green ground color, and it must have been regarded as an extremely fashionable and lavish gift. Diplomatic correspondence indicates that the French king's gift was in response to gift of stallions from Frederik V.

Artist

Vincennes Manufactory|Jean-Claude Duplessis|Charles Nicolas Dodin

Date

1757

Medium

Soft-paste porcelain

Culture

French, Vincennes

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1950