Sauce Boat
ca. 1755 (made)
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Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain painted with underglaze enamels, transfer-printed with brown and over-painted with enamels. Wavy edge with a scroll handle. Moulded in relief with scrolls and ribbons forming three panels outlined in pink, in which are transfer-printed in brown with designs of flowers, an exotic bird, and a squirrel, and over-painted in green, yellow, red, blue and pink. Inside is a herdsman and a milkmaid with two cows, and flowers are within the edge, transfer-printed and over-painted with enamels.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain painted with underglaze enamels, transfer-printed with brown, over-painted with enamels and moulded |
| Brief description | Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain painted with underglaze enamels, transfer-printed with brown and over-painted with enamels, Worcester porcelain factory, ca. 1755 |
| Physical description | Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain painted with underglaze enamels, transfer-printed with brown and over-painted with enamels. Wavy edge with a scroll handle. Moulded in relief with scrolls and ribbons forming three panels outlined in pink, in which are transfer-printed in brown with designs of flowers, an exotic bird, and a squirrel, and over-painted in green, yellow, red, blue and pink. Inside is a herdsman and a milkmaid with two cows, and flowers are within the edge, transfer-printed and over-painted with enamels. |
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| Credit line | Given by E. F. Broderip, Esq. |
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| Bibliographic reference | For another, less-crisply modelled sauceboat of pattern and with this print see Nicholas Panes British Porcelain Sauceboats of the 18th Century (2009), cat. 207, where dated ca. 1755 |
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| Accession number | C.1213-1924 |
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| Record created | June 8, 2009 |
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