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A BOAR’S HEAD SOUP TUREEN AND COVER
QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1760
Naturalistically modeled with raised snout and staring eyes, the open mouth revealing teeth,
tongue and fangs, glazed in iron-red, grisaille and famille rose
14¡ in. (36.5 cm.) long (2)
$30,000-50,000
PROVENANCE
The collection of Florence Adele Sloane Burden of Manhattan and Long Island, New York.
A great-granddaughter of Commodore Vanderbilt, Florence numbered among her cousins
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough. She
traveled in Europe with Gertrude and with such friends as Helena Woolworth McCann and
Henry du Pont, buying for her townhouse and for the house on Long Island, a Delano &
Aldrich design built in 1913.
By descent through the family.
An American private collector.

W.R. Sargent, The Copeland Collection, p. 202, notes that the records of the Dutch East
India Company document an order of 25 boar’s head tureens in the 1763 season. In 1764
nineteen were shipped home to Holland but a further order was not fulflled because “the
supercargoes considered them too risky.” The animal tureen form was fashionable in Europe
in the mid-18th century, when faience or soft-paste models were made at Strasbourg, Palissy,
Chelsea, Höchst and other factories. A faience boar’s head tureen made at Kiel in Denmark
is illustrated by D.L. Fennimore and P.A. Halfpenny in The Campbell Collection of Soup
Tureens at Winterthur, p. 173, as is a Chelsea example, p. 148, where the authors quote a
Chelsea factory auction catalogue of March 18, 1755 listing “a very curious TUREEN in the
form of a BOAR’S HEAD.” Whether Chinese porcelain or European pottery, boar’s head
tureens must have made an impressive effect on the dining table, especially when flled with
hot soup or stew emitting clouds of steam through the snout.

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