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On display at V&A South Kensington
British Galleries, Room 123

Sauce Boat

ca. 1760 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Sauce boat of salt-glazed stoneware painted with enamels, and four-lobed with a wavy body, projecting spout and green reeded loop handle, and moulded in low relief with bouquets of roses and other flowers in pink, crimson, blue, red, yellow and green, and within the rim is a painted border consisting of a flower at either end, and on either side with narrow bands of black dots on a green ground.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Salt-glazed stoneware painted with enamels and moulded
Brief description
Sauce boat of salt-glazed stoneware painted with enamels, and four-lobed with a wavy body, projecting spout and reeded loop handle, and moulded, maker unknown, made in Staffordshire, ca. 1760.
Physical description
Sauce boat of salt-glazed stoneware painted with enamels, and four-lobed with a wavy body, projecting spout and green reeded loop handle, and moulded in low relief with bouquets of roses and other flowers in pink, crimson, blue, red, yellow and green, and within the rim is a painted border consisting of a flower at either end, and on either side with narrow bands of black dots on a green ground.
Dimensions
  • Height: 7cm
  • Length: 16.6cm
  • Width: 9.6cm
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
One of a pair with 414:891/A-1885 (Sch. II 195A).
Subjects depicted
Other number
Sch. II 195 - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:891-1885

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Record createdJune 17, 1999
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