Sauce Boat

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Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Artist/Maker	Worcester Porcelain Factory (manufacturer)
Place of origin	Worcester (made)

Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels, and with a scroll handle. Moulded in relief with shell patterns which appear in outline at the edge, and floral sprays. Painted with bouquets of flowers at the sides and under the lip. Inside is a tree, flowers, a bird and palisade in Chinese style. Inside the lip are formal flowers.

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Categories	Ceramics Porcelain
Object type	Sauce boat
Materials and techniques	Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and moulded Soft Paste Porcelain Enamels Painted Moulded
Brief description	Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels, and with a scroll handle, Worcester Porcelain Factory, ca. 1753-54
Physical description	Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels, and with a scroll handle. Moulded in relief with shell patterns which appear in outline at the edge, and floral sprays. Painted with bouquets of flowers at the sides and under the lip. Inside is a tree, flowers, a bird and palisade in Chinese style. Inside the lip are formal flowers.
Dimensions	Without handle length: 20.3cm Width: 9.5cm
Style	Chinoiserie
Credit line	Given by E. F. Broderip, Esq.
Subjects depicted	Shell Flowers Tree Bird Palisade
Bibliographic references	Spero, Simon. Lund's Bristol and Early Worcester Porcelain, 1750-1758, The A.J. Smith Collection, C. & J. Smith, London, 2005. See no. 62, 146 p. for a very similar example. Spero refers to it as Worcester, circa 1753-1754. 'One of the most ambitious and extravagantly rococo of all the Worcester sauceboat models, strongly reminiscent of metalwork in its asymmetrical shell moulding, yet with no silver prototype...' For this pattern and decoration, see Nicholas Panes British Porcelain Sauceboats of the 18th Century (2009), cat. 183, where dated ca. 1753-54
Collection	Ceramics Collection
Accession number	C.1214-1924

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Record created	June 8, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O239280/sauce-boat-worcester-porcelain-factory/

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