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A shiny metal turtle with markings detailing its shell and flippers on a white background. A shiny metal turtle with markings detailing its shell and flippers on a white background.

Old Sheffield Plate Soup Tureen, 1790 1810. Photo © Sheffield Museums

Old Sheffield Plate Soup Tureen, 1790 1810. Photo © Sheffield Museums

Turtle Soup Tureen

Continuing Display

Millennium Gallery

One of the highlights of the city’s Metalwork Collection, this skillfully-crafted soup tureen is made from Old Sheffield Plate and dates from around 1800.

 

Turtles are now a protected species, but at the beginning of the 1800s turtle soup was an extremely popular first course at dinner for the fashionable and wealthy.

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Millennium Gallery

Arundel Gate

Sheffield

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A shiny metal turtle with markings detailing its shell and flippers on a white background.

Old Sheffield Plate soup tureen, 1790 - 1810

Photo © Museums Sheffield

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