A tureen, lid and stand decorated in gilt with red details. Depicted on the set are small flowers and an emblem with a chicken, lobster, and other items.

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Soup Tureen with the Arms of the Scholten-Hogenberg Family Soup Tureen With Stand, 1725–1730

This is a soup tureen with stand. It is dated 1725–1730 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

This tureen represents a primary focus in the early collecting of Asian objects: Chinese export ceramics. Erskine, one of Sarah and Eleanor’s brothers, may have collected the tureen for its unusual cartouche, which research has since discovered to be the “coat of arms” for an 18th-century family of Dutch grocers.

This object was bequest of Erskine Hewitt. It is credited Bequest of Erskine Hewitt.

Oval dish with curved sides everted toward rolled plain lip. Flat base section. Domed cover with similar shape; curved dome flares outward gently at lip to form small opening at long ends of bowl. Lower bowl with raised lip section at sides into which similar sections of cover fit when closed.

1083 Centerpiece Dish And Cover, 1955–60
silver.
Gift of Judge and Mrs. Walter Mansfield.
1982-82-1-a,b

Tureen (a) of bulging and lobed oval form with two scrolling loop handles at either side and four scrolled feet; the white body with pink ground decorated at front and back with large central cartouches showing the artist as Madame de Pompadour in low-cut bodice and wig of silvery curls, with landscape in background; the pink surface embellished with platinum scrollwork and floral sprays, the flower buds rendered as fish; the articulated surfaces of the white handles and feet also picked out with platinum. Interior of bowl white, the floor decorated with scene of fish lying among ropes of pearls, all resting on soft folds of blue fabric. The domed and lobed cover (b), with pink ground decorated with platinum scrollwork and floral sprays as on tureen, and having central knob in the form of large platinum-colored flower buds with white and platinum leaves. The platter (c) of roughly oval shape having a white rectangular well, and wide everted rim, its two scrolled ends forming handles, and decorated with images of the artist as Madame de Pompadour; the articulated surface with pink ground, picked out with platinum scrollwork and floral sprays as on tureen.

Madame de Pompadour (née Poisson) Covered Tureen And Stand, 1990
glazed porcelain with photo-transfer (silkscreen) and painted-platinum....
Museum purchase from Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund.
2003-4-1-a/c

Lobed oval, on scrolled feet, with four-lobed relief medallions of the Four Continents; engraved decoration.

Salver (Germany), ca. 1725
gilt silver.
Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde.
1960-1-17

Our curators have highlighted 4 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:

Shaped open back with voluted top rail and two horizontal crossing members enclosing a verre églomisé panel bearing the arms of the Earl of Scarsdale (extinct 1735). Cabriole sharply raking rear legs, voluted at knees, and with moulded ankles and Dutch feet. Voluted cabriole front legs with gilded pewter mounts at knees; hoof feet. Gilded pewter mask in center of front seat rail. Slip seat.

Scarsdale Side Chair, 1724–36
walnut and beechwood, gilt pewter, gilt and reverse-painted glass (verre....
Bequest of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
1926-22-58

a) Bowl with engraved strapwork and four-lobed medallions. Shaped relief-cast handles, also with medallions. B) Domed cover, with strapwork-engraved gadrooned sides and small medallions; on top, medallion with Africa, surrounded by engraving; three scrolled feet.

Double-Handled Porringer (Écuelle) Porringer And Lid, ca. 1725
silver gilt.
Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde.
1960-1-18-a,b

View of salad bowl in elevation (above) and plan (below), painted on exterior and interior in form of large cabbage-like leaves, each leaf bordered alternatively in blue and yellow/brown painted scallops. The reserves are painted with sprays of roses, tulips, and colored daisies.

Drawing, Design for a Painted Porcelain Feuilles de Choux (Cabbage Leaves)...
brush and watercolor, black chalk on cream laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
1938-88-8312

Its dimensions are

H x W x D (a: tureen, b: cover): 18.6 x 36 x 18.3 cm (7 5/16 x 14 3/16 x 7 3/16 in.) H x W x D (c: stand): 3.2 x 36.3 x 21.2 cm (1 1/4 x 14 5/16 x 8 3/8 in.)

Cite this object as

Soup Tureen with the Arms of the Scholten-Hogenberg Family Soup Tureen With Stand, 1725–1730; Netherlands; porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold; H x W x D (a: tureen, b: cover): 18.6 x 36 x 18.3 cm (7 5/16 x 14 3/16 x 7 3/16 in.) H x W x D (c: stand): 3.2 x 36.3 x 21.2 cm (1 1/4 x 14 5/16 x 8 3/8 in.); Bequest of Erskine Hewitt; 1938-57-354-a/c

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Hewitt Sisters Collect.

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Accession Number 1938-57-354-a/c
Object ID 18349723