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Sauce boat
James Pennington's factory - Enlarge image
Sauce boat
- Place of origin:
Liverpool (made)
- Date:
ca. 1765-1770 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
James Pennington's factory (manufacturer)
- Materials and Techniques:
Soft-paste porcelain, moulded in relief and with underglaze blue decoration
- Credit Line:
Given by E. F. Broderip, Esq.
- Museum number:
C.925-1924
- Gallery location:
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery, case F, shelf 1
Physical description
Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain, in the form of a duck, moulded in relief in imitation of feathers and feet; decorated outside and within with flowering and other plants.
Place of Origin
Liverpool (made)
Date
ca. 1765-1770 (made)
Artist/maker
James Pennington's factory (manufacturer)
Materials and Techniques
Soft-paste porcelain, moulded in relief and with underglaze blue decoration
Dimensions
Length: 17.8 cm, Width: 8.9 cm
Descriptive line
Sauce boat, in the form of a duck, soft-paste porcelain, moulded in relief and with underglaze blue decoration, James Pennington's factory, Liverpool, ca. 1765-1770.
Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)
Rackham, Bernard. 'Liverpool Porcelain' in E.P.C. Trans. No. II, 1929, p. 36
Watney, Bernard. English blue and white porcelain of the eighteenth century, 2nd ed., London: Faber and Faber, 1973
For this sauceboat shape, see Nicholas Panes, British Porcelain Sauceboats of the 18th Century (2009), no. 340, where dated ca. 1770
Hillis, Maurice. Liverpool Porcelain, 1756-1804. 2011, pl. 4.92, where dated ca. 1765-70
Materials
Soft paste porcelain; Cobalt oxide
Techniques
Glazed; Moulded
Subjects depicted
Ducks; Plants; Flowers
Categories
Ceramics; Porcelain
Collection
Ceramics Collection
