Sauce Boat
ca. 1765-1780 (made)
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The interior has a flower spray. The exterior has a harbour and a coastal scene with ships and buildings within rococo cartouches linked under the handle and spout with festoons of flowers with sgraffito decoration. All the decoration is in blue.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Greenish white. Foot-rim wiped clean of glaze.
Shape: Press-moulded. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Greenish white. Foot-rim wiped clean of glaze.
Shape: Press-moulded. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware, painted |
| Brief description | Delftware sauce boat, with painted decoration depicting coastal and harbour scenes, London, probably Abigail Griffith, Lambeth High Street, ca. 1765-1780. |
| Physical description | The interior has a flower spray. The exterior has a harbour and a coastal scene with ships and buildings within rococo cartouches linked under the handle and spout with festoons of flowers with sgraffito decoration. All the decoration is in blue. Body colour: Buff. Glaze: Greenish white. Foot-rim wiped clean of glaze. Shape: Press-moulded. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997) |
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| Credit line | Mellor Bequest |
| Object history | Exhibited: Rijksmuseum, No: 164. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Archer, Michael. Delftware: the tin-glazed earthenware of the British Isles. A catalogue of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: HMSO, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1997. ISBN 0 11 290499 8 |
| Other number | G20. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.88-1947 |
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| Record created | January 29, 2000 |
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