Sauce Boat
ca. 1755 (made)
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Sauce-boat of salt-glazed stoneware. Boat-shaped with wavy top and a loop handle on each side. Painted outside in enamel colours in which red and light blue predominate with Chinoiserie figures, buildings, flowering plants and fences; inside, a narrow border of flowers and trees and at the bottom, a red peony.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Salt-glazed stoneware, painted in enamel colours |
| Brief description | Sauce boat, salt-glazed stoneware, painted in enamel colours, made in Staffordshire, ca. 1755 |
| Physical description | Sauce-boat of salt-glazed stoneware. Boat-shaped with wavy top and a loop handle on each side. Painted outside in enamel colours in which red and light blue predominate with Chinoiserie figures, buildings, flowering plants and fences; inside, a narrow border of flowers and trees and at the bottom, a red peony. |
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| Gallery label | Sauce-boat
Made in Staffordshire, about 1745-1755
Salt-glazed stoneware
C.43-1938 Wallace Elliot bequest(23/05/2008) |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Mr Wallace Elliot |
| Object history | London, C. Andrade, 1919. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Glanville, Philippa. From Saucers to Sauceboats: The Origins of dining and the development of tablewares. A paper read at the weekend seminar ‘Fire and Form – The Baroque and its influence on English Ceramics, c. 1660-1760’, 26th-27th March 2011, published English Ceramics Circle, 2013. Illustrated fig.8 together with a pair of Dutch delftware examples of c. 1690, a silver example of 1728 and a porcelain example of c. 1755, all of similar form, figs. 4, 6 and 7. |
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| Accession number | C.43-1938 |
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| Record created | March 31, 2008 |
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