tureen

Covered terrine, ovals, double built shape over low standup ring with broad shells and double curved lid with knob. The wall of the vessel and ceiling decorated with two relieved and gold-hollowed lattice cartouches, from which relieved, multicolored “German” flower garlands draw to the handles. Lower borders with multicolored foliage, bandage and lattice, upper painted with foliage and bandage. The knob whole, the handle gilded only on the narrow sides. These holes are extinguished due to a planned metal mounting. Similar bowls were in service for the tsar of Russia, today in the slg. Syz, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. (Neuwirth, Waltraud) The oval terrine with its bombed base shape and J-shaped handles corresponds to one of the common terrines models Du Paquiers. Their relief pattern, together with the painted decoration, is extremely decorative. With the flowers, which seem to be attached to relieved lattice cartouches, the model is reminiscent of the famous terrines of the Tsarina Anna Ivanovna (cf. State Hermitage St. Petersburg Inv.-Nr. 820, 816, 811, 814, 808, 819, 833, 828), but without achieving their lush plasticity. Four large and two small round terrines in the hermitage are very similar, but their flowers are connected to a plastic pattern of mascaron and bandwork (Inv.-Nr. 837, 841, 16450; Kasakiewitsch 1997, pp. 6-8, Fig. 4). Due to the deviant lattice work pattern, these terrines are not attributable to Anna Ivanovna’s service. For stylistic reasons, however, they cannot have heard Zarin Catherine I, although in 1858 they were in the Catherine Palace in Zarskoje Zelo (now Pushkin), which emerged from the estate for Catherine I. (KH, Melinda and Paul Sullivan Foundation for Decorative Arts)