Sauce Boat
ca. 1768-70 (made)
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Sauce boat of porcelain, painted with enamels in the Japanese style and moulded in relief, and the body, which has a rim of irregular outline, is moulded on either side with rococo scrolls surrounding a shaped panel, and beneath and inside the lip and in the panels is a spray of flowers painted in red, green, yellow, and blue, and the spreading foot is moulded with scrollwork, and the handle is of scrolled form with an acanthus-leaf at the top.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Porcelain painted with enamels and moulded |
| Brief description | Sauce boat of porcelain, painted with enamels in the Japanese style and moulded in relief, made by Plymouth Porcelain Factory, Plymouth, ca. 1768-70 |
| Physical description | Sauce boat of porcelain, painted with enamels in the Japanese style and moulded in relief, and the body, which has a rim of irregular outline, is moulded on either side with rococo scrolls surrounding a shaped panel, and beneath and inside the lip and in the panels is a spray of flowers painted in red, green, yellow, and blue, and the spreading foot is moulded with scrollwork, and the handle is of scrolled form with an acanthus-leaf at the top. |
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| Credit line | Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber |
| Object history | Purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from K of W. Ponsonby-Bere Ferris [????] for 5 shillings in December 1870 |
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| Bibliographic reference | For this sauceboat shape, see Nicholas Panes, British Porcelain Sauceboats of the 18th Century (2009), no. 382 |
| Other number | Sch. I 725 - Schreiber number |
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| Accession number | 414:745-1885 |
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| Record created | February 5, 2009 |
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