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Large tureens were the centerpieces of the dining table, serving savory stews and soups flavored with salts and spices from around the world. Animal-shaped examples were popular in the 1700s, and this goose-shaped tureen, made in China from porcelain and decorated with enamels and gilding, is among the rarest and most extravagant of these forms, which also included boar and ox heads, fish and crabs, and roosters and quails.

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