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Tureen

Object Name:
Tureen
Object ID:
1973.072.01 a-b
Creator:
Grindley, William & Company
Place of Origin:
Stoke, Staffordshire, England
Date:
1880-1914
Description:
Tureen with lid. Whiteware earthenware. Tureen exterior and lid exterior are sparsely decorated with dark blue transfer print. Tureen and lid are oval in shape. Scrolled handles on two ends of tureen. Similar scrolled handle serves as finial on lid. Tureen body is slightly bulbous and has a four-segment foot ring. Transfer print decoration of flowers and scrolls. Maker's mark printed in blue on bottom reads: "R.N.250387 / 32 / MARIE / TRADE MARK / [W]M.GRINDLEY&CoENGLAND / FB". Also written on bottom in black: "CY" and inscribed on bottom is "96".
Object register:
a. lid.
b. dish.
Material:
Ceramic
Earthenware
Dimensions:
H-5.5 W-11.2 D-7.6 inches
Provenance:
One of a pair of covered vegetable dishes given by donor, with no specific history.
Other gifts from the same donor -- Foster E. Sturtevant (1898-1979); (1977.7, et al) were contents of his Concord, N.H. multi-generational family homestead, or contents of a South Chatham summer camp which he purchased in the 1940s.
Credit Line:
Gift of Foster E. Sturtevant
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