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

Sauce Boat

ca. 1775 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels. With a wavy outline and edge, and a scroll handle. Painted on one side with a figure and a tree, and on the other side with a figure and palisade in Chinese style, in green, brown, red, blue, yellow and black.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels
Brief description
Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels, John Pennington, Liverpool, ca. 1775
Physical description
Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels. With a wavy outline and edge, and a scroll handle. Painted on one side with a figure and a tree, and on the other side with a figure and palisade in Chinese style, in green, brown, red, blue, yellow and black.
Dimensions
  • Length: 12.1cm
  • Width: 6.9cm
Style
Credit line
Given by E. F. Broderip, Esq.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • For this sauceboat shape and decoration, see Nicholas Panes, British Porcelain Sauceboats of the 18th Century (2009), no. 349, where dated ca. 1780-85
  • For this model, see Hillis, Maurice. Liverpool Porcelain, 1756-1804. 2011, pl. 8.89, where dated ca. 1775-80
Collection
Accession number
C.1224-1924

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Record createdJune 8, 2009
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