«Vallayer - Coster's «The White Soup Bowl (1771),» with its beautifully rendered planes and rotundities of steaming
tureen and crinkled napkin, comes close to Chardin in reverent description of commonplace
things,» Time critic Robert Hughes wrote in a review of the 1977 Los Angeles Country Museum show «Women Artists: 1550 - 1950.»
I use a soup
tureen for all those little
things you can't seem to throw away, just in case they belong to something important, a carved wooden box to store vitamins on the kitchen counter (so we can remember to take them) and a three tire basket for mail, newspapers and such.