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Tournai Sucrier, Cover and Stand


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Dates Circa 1762
Medium Porcelain
Origin Belgium
Description An extremely rare Tournai sucrier or small tureen cover and stand, painted with small flowers and larger flowering plants in a delicate shade of blue. Fine moulding in a rococo style. Transitional first/second period.

(First period 1751-1762, Second period 1763-1774)

Marks in blue: inside cover: No 1, inside tureen: No 2, base of stand: N(?)3.

Tureen 12cm High, 19cm Wide and 13cm Deep

Stand 27cm Wide 18cm Deep
Condition Cover with a hairline to the top and small manufacturing fire faults. The base with a graze to one swirl and fritting.
Literature Porcelain de Tournai: 240 pièces exceptionnelles: Musée des Arts décoratifs de la Ville de Tournai: p. p. 42, no 11 for a blue and white tureen lacking stand and p. 43 no.12 for a 3 piece in white. * In the literature this shape is described as a "sucrier".