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Sauce Boat

ca. 1750-1760 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Staffordshire (made)

Salt glazed stoneware sauce boat in the form of a shell

Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Eating
Tableware & Cutlery
Stoneware
Object type
Sauce boat
Materials and techniques
Salt-glazed stoneware, partly slip-cast, partly press-moulded
Stoneware
Moulded
Glazed
Brief description
Sauce boat, salt-glazed stoneware, partly slip-cast and partly press-moulded, made in Staffordshire, ca. 1750-1760
Physical description
Salt glazed stoneware sauce boat in the form of a shell
Dimensions
  • Height: 12cm
  • Diameter: 17.5cm
Gallery label
(23/05/2008)
Sauce boat
Made in Staffordshire, about 1750-60
Salt-glazed stoneware, partly slip-cast, partly press-moulded

C.141-1993 Bequeathed by Esther Darlington
Credit line
Bequeathed by Esther Darlington
Bibliographic references
  • See Object Information file in Ceramics and Glass Section office (for a related cream jug from the Longton Hall site)
  • D. Edwards & R. Hampson, White salt-glazed stoneware of the British Isles (2005), p. 126
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.141-1993

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Record createdMarch 31, 2008
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O151253/sauce-boat-unknown/
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