Sauce Boat
ca. 1765 (made)
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Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and transfer-printed with brown. Wavy edge, incurved at the sides, and moulded in relief with reeding, scrolled lines and formal leaves. Transfer-printed and painted outside with figures and furniture in Chinese style, and insects, and inside at the bottom with two figures under a tree and at the lip with a flowering spray. Scroll handle.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and transfer-printed with brown and moulded |
| Brief description | Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and transfer-printed with brown, Worcester porcelain factory, ca. 1765 |
| Physical description | Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and transfer-printed with brown. Wavy edge, incurved at the sides, and moulded in relief with reeding, scrolled lines and formal leaves. Transfer-printed and painted outside with figures and furniture in Chinese style, and insects, and inside at the bottom with two figures under a tree and at the lip with a flowering spray. Scroll handle. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | A cross (Incised) |
| Credit line | Given by E. F. Broderip, Esq. |
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| Bibliographic reference | For another sauceboat of this pattern see Nicholas Panes British Porcelain Sauceboats of the 18th Century (2009), cat. 227, where dated ca. 1765-8, and for one with this print see cat. 233, dated ca. 1765 |
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| Accession number | C.1199-1924 |
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| Record created | June 8, 2009 |
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