Notes & Queries Archive
REPLY1850

Tureen

By SELEUCUS.

(No. 16. p. 246.; No. 19. p. 307.).—I have seen old-fashioned silver tureens which turned on a pivot attached to the handles, and always concluded that it was to this form that Goldsmith alluded in the line quoted by "G.W."

Topics: Silverware, Historical Customs