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Sauce Boat

ca. 1755 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels. Wavy edge with a scroll handle. Moulded in relief outside with scrollwork and foliage forming panels in which are painted a figure in a landscape with pine-trees in Chinese style, repeated on both sides. Inside is a border of flowers and Chinese emblems. At the bottom is a flowering spray. Decorated in red, green, yellow, blue and black.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and moulded
Brief description
Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels, Worcester porcelain factory, ca. 1755
Physical description
Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels. Wavy edge with a scroll handle. Moulded in relief outside with scrollwork and foliage forming panels in which are painted a figure in a landscape with pine-trees in Chinese style, repeated on both sides. Inside is a border of flowers and Chinese emblems. At the bottom is a flowering spray. Decorated in red, green, yellow, blue and black.
Dimensions
  • Without handle length: 14.9cm
  • Width: 8.3cm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
  • An arrow through a circle (In red)
  • Transliteration
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Credit line
Given by E. F. Broderip, Esq.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.1203-1924

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Record createdJune 8, 2009
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