Sauce Boat
ca. 1750-52 (made)
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Sauce boat of porcelain, with gilded decoration, and moulded in relief with wave-like projections on the rim and a long pointed lip, and with an elaborately scrolled loop handle with a small mask in relief near the upper attachment, and with a spreading high foot, and decorated on the outside with festoons of flowers in relief on the body, enclosing large floral sprays in gold, and the inside has a gilt spray on the bottom and a formal gilt border, and the foot has flowers in relief and a border of gilt cresting.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain, gilded |
| Brief description | Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain, with gilded decoration, moulded in relief with wave-like projections on the rim and a long pointed lip, and with an elaborately scrolled loop handle with a small mask in relief, made by Bow Porcelain Factory, London, ca. 1750-52 |
| Physical description | Sauce boat of porcelain, with gilded decoration, and moulded in relief with wave-like projections on the rim and a long pointed lip, and with an elaborately scrolled loop handle with a small mask in relief near the upper attachment, and with a spreading high foot, and decorated on the outside with festoons of flowers in relief on the body, enclosing large floral sprays in gold, and the inside has a gilt spray on the bottom and a formal gilt border, and the foot has flowers in relief and a border of gilt cresting. |
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| Credit line | Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber |
| Object history | One of a pair of sauce boats 414:87&/A-1885 (Sch. I 35&A); on this, however, see below. One sauceboat was purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Mr or Mrs Paradise, Stamford, for 5 shillings in October 1870, and the other from Captain Cooper, Hardingstone for £1 in February 1871 |
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| Bibliographic reference | For this pattern see Nicholas Panes British Porcelain Sauceboats of the 18th Century (2009), cat. 85, where dated ca. 1750-52 |
| Other number | Sch. I 35A - Schreiber number |
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| Accession number | 414:87/A-1885 |
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| Record created | December 4, 2008 |
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