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entering from the kitchens with an air of ceremony. Soup remained the first course of most meals, from the king's table to the peasant's, and the soup tureen on its serving platter provided the opening ceremony. Tureens naturally tended towards the impressive; the world's record auction price fetched
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it was developed from a practical covered serving vessel into one of the most richly ornamented centerpieces of the formal apparatus of dining. This period also saw the old practice of dressing the dinner table with every dish at once
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Tureens are most practical for serving about six people. In eighteenth-century France, a small individual covered standing bowl on a small platter, essentially an individual tureen, was called an
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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
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manufactory produced tureens in the form of rabbits: a
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During the mid-eighteenth century, tureens in appropriate naturalistic shapes, such as tureens in the form of a head of cabbage, were popular. The
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Commemorative tureen painted with red, blue, and gold. Gift of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip of the United Kingdom, 1976
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for a single piece of silver was achieved by a silver tureen made in 1733 by the
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is the two-handled cream soup bowl on matching plate. A small covered dish for sauce, called a
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