Sauce Boat

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Sauce boat of porcelain, moulded in relief with gadrooning over which are flowers and foliage and raised lines outlining panels, in which are painted in underglaze blue with blurred landscapes in Chinese style; scroll handle, and scrolled edge moulded with shells.

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Categories	Ceramics Porcelain
Object type	Sauce boat
Materials and techniques	Porcelain, moulded in relief and painted in underglaze blue Porcelain Cobalt Oxide Painted Glazed Moulded
Brief description	Sauce boat, porcelain, moulded in relief and painted in underglaze blue, probably a 19th or 20th century fake copying a Worcester sauce boat
Physical description	Sauce boat of porcelain, moulded in relief with gadrooning over which are flowers and foliage and raised lines outlining panels, in which are painted in underglaze blue with blurred landscapes in Chinese style; scroll handle, and scrolled edge moulded with shells.
Dimensions	Length: 15.2cm Width: 7.6cm
Style	Chinoiserie
Marks and inscriptions	Transliteration .
Credit line	Given by E. F. Broderip, Esq.
Subjects depicted	Shells Gadroons Flowers Foliage Landscapes
Bibliographic reference	Nicholas Panes, British Porcelain Sauceboats of the 18th century, Wales: Gomer Press, 2009. See p. 134, fig. 213 for a Worcester sauceboat of very similar type painted with the 'Moored Boat' pattern, c. 1735. 'Sauceboats of this size were copied in the 19th or early 20th century in continental hard paste'.
Collection	Ceramics Collection
Accession number	C.430-1924

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Record created	May 1, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O229203/sauce-boat/

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