Double Handled Tureen Soup Bowls with Lid, Ceramic Soup Pot Serving Soup Bowl with Lid Large 2L Ceramic Soup Bowls with Handles Household Restaurant Use

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For this reason I have gotten into the habit of making a soup as a first course at Thanksgiving dinner. We usually have a big crowd and at the beginning of the meal this beautiful tureen is the centerpiece of the table. After that we replace it with the turkey. It may only be once a year, but I am glad to have some opportunity to use this beautiful tureen.

published her own novella, and has other literary projects currently in progress. Sara’s varied interests have also led See 'Les Eléments de datation des Porcelaines de Vincennes avant 1753', The French Porcelain Society, Vol. II, 1986, p. 1-7. But on the few occasions we did visit I will never forget the amazingly formal meals that we were served. My grandmother would sit at the head of this huge table and preside over the meal like a queen. The celebrated collector Comtesse Martine de Béhague (1869-1939) amassed an impressive array of works of art during her extensive worldwide travels by yacht. The Comtesse resided at Hôtel de Béhague at 123 Rue Saint-Dominique, Paris and the building itself reflected her diverse collections having been built in a combination of Byzantine, classical and other styles. The Comtesse held court at her Paris residence and important writers, artists, poets and sculptors of the day would visit. Her eclectic array of artworks were displayed in Paris and also at the Château de Fleury-en-Bière in Seine-et-Marne (which she rennovated). They were also displayed at her villa on the French Riviera La Polynésie. Much of her collection was dispersed during the early and mid-20th century with many pieces entering important museum collections in France and America.

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There is a restaurant close to my house that serves only soup and bread. They serve all of their soup out of these very simple and elegant looking porcelain tureens. They bring out enough soup for several portions so you might try 2 or 3 different soups over the course of the meal. Most seventeenth-century French silver tureens were melted down to finance the wars of Louis' late years and may be glimpsed only in paintings. The ornate silver tureens of that period figure in buffets—still life of silver and game—by artists such as Alexandre-François Desportes, or in more modest still life, such as the painting by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin ( illustration), which is dated 1728 but depicts a silver tureen of Baroque form of the first decade of the century.

I only went to visit her a few times as a kid. My mom does not get along so well with her mom so we tended to avoid the dusty old mansion.

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. [i] Etymology [ edit ] Still Life (The Silver Tureen), Chardin, 1728 ( Metropolitan Museum of Art) During 18th Century France, the tureen was known as the écuelle. Rather than being accompanied by a ladle or spoon, the écuelle was simply tipped like a two-handled cup for drinking. Smaller tureens used for sauces were called saucières. I have a beautiful old china soup tureen that has been in my family for over a hundred years. It is a beautiful heirloom and something that I really treasure, unfortunately I just don't have that many occasions to use it. I have a husband and three small kids and serving soup out of china just doesn't make sense.