tureen
Sign in to savethumb|300px|A Sèvres porcelain|Sèvres soup tureen and tray. Sèvres porcelain, [[National Gallery of Victoria, Australia]] thumb|Silver-gilt tureen, Paris, 1769–70 thumb|An Émile Gallé (1846–1904) tureen A tureen is a serving dish for foods such as soups or stews, often shaped as a broad, deep, oval vessel with fixed handles and a low domed cover with a knob or handle. Over the centuries, tureens have appeared in many different forms: round, rectangular, or made into fanciful shapes such as animals or wildfowl. Tureens may be ceramic—either the glazed earthenware called faience, or porcel
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- Etymology
- History
- Silver tureens
- Eighteenth century
- Écuelles and saucières
- Collections
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
thumb|300px|A Sèvres porcelain|Sèvres soup tureen and tray. Sèvres porcelain, [[National Gallery of Victoria, Australia]] thumb|Silver-gilt tureen, Paris, 1769–70 thumb|An Émile Gallé (1846–1904) tureen A tureen is a serving dish for foods such as soups or stews, often shaped as a broad, deep, oval vessel with fixed handles and a low domed cover with a knob or handle. Over the centuries, tureens have appeared in many different forms: round, rectangular, or made into fanciful shapes such as animals or wildfowl. Tureens may be ceramic—either the glazed earthenware called faience, or porcelain—or silver, and customarily they stand on an undertray or platter made en suite.
==Etymology== thumb|Still Life (The Silver Tureen), Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin|Chardin, 1728 ([[Metropolitan Museum of Art)]] The tureen as a piece of tableware called a pot à oille—a Catalan-Provençal soup—came into use in late seventeenth-century France. Alternative explanations for the etymology are that it is related to the earlier word terrine, a borrowing from the French for 'a large, circular, earthenware dish' or that it is named to honour the French military hero Marshal Turenne.