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Minton : Staffordshire (c. 1793-1873)
Pair of cream tureens 1850-51
Glazed and unglazed bone china, painted in enamels, partly gilded | 26 x 17.6 cm (whole object) | RCIN 58682
China Corridor, Windsor Castle
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A pair of bone china and biscuit porcelain cream tureen and cover with turquoise ground; seated putti finial, cover with three cartouche reserves painted with exotic birds, floral reserves on tureen, upon a stem of three stooping putti.
Provenance
Part of the dessert service known as the Victoria pattern dessert service purchased by Queen Victoria from Minton and Co's stand at the Great Exhibition in 1851. She subsequently gave sixty nine pieces of the service to the Austrian Emperor Franz Josef I, for whom it was originally intended, before commissioning more for herself.
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Creator(s)
(porcelain manufacturer)(designer)(ceramic artist)Acquirer(s)
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Medium and techniques
Glazed and unglazed bone china, painted in enamels, partly gilded
Measurements
26 x 17.6 cm (whole object)
Category
Place of Production
Staffordshire [England]
