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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

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 with scrollwork and foliage forming panels in which are painted a landscape with a stream, a church, a classical building and an angler in one, and a landscape with a cottage, a stream and a sailing boat in the other. Inside are five sprays of flowers at the edge and at the bottom. Coloured in green, red, pink, yellow, blue and brown.


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 with scrollwork and foliage forming panels in which are painted a landscape with a stream, a church, a classical building and an angler in one, and a landscape with a cottage, a stream and a sailing boat in the other. Inside are five sprays of flowers at the edge and at the bottom. Coloured in green, red, pink, yellow, blue and brown.
Dimensions
  • Without handle length: 16.5cm
  • Width: 9.2cm
Credit line
Given by E. F. Broderip, Esq.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.1209-1924

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Record createdJune 8, 2009
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