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Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Sauce Boat

ca. 1765-72 (made)
Artist/Maker
Philip Christian & Co. (manufacturer)
Place of origin
Liverpool (made)

Sauce-boat with scroll handle, of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Boat shaped on a spreading foot, moulded in relief with leaves, flowers and scrollwork. Painted with flowers and a peacock in green, purple, yellow, red, pink and gold. Border of cresting in red and gold. Formal flowers inside the lip in green, purple, blue and red.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Porcelain
Object type
Sauce boat
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels, gilded and moulded
Soft Paste Porcelain
Enamels
Painted
Gilded
Moulded
Brief description
Sauce-boat with scroll handle, of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Philip Christian & Co., Liverpool, ca. 1765-72
Physical description
Sauce-boat with scroll handle, of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Boat shaped on a spreading foot, moulded in relief with leaves, flowers and scrollwork. Painted with flowers and a peacock in green, purple, yellow, red, pink and gold. Border of cresting in red and gold. Formal flowers inside the lip in green, purple, blue and red.
Dimensions
  • Length: 16.5cm
  • Width: 10.2cm
Credit line
Given by E. F. Broderip, Esq.
Subjects depicted
Leaves
Flowers
Scrollwork
Peacock
Cresting
Border
Bibliographic references
  • For this sauceboat shape and decoration, see Nicholas Panes, British Porcelain Sauceboats of the 18th Century (2009), no. 315, where dated ca. 1770 and where attributed to Philip Christian with the proviso that an attribution to the Liverpool factory of James Pennington is also possible (but if made there, Panes suggests, it would have been decorated elsewhere)
  • For this pattern, see also Hillis, Maurice. Liverpool Porcelain, 1756-1804. 2011, pl. 6.105, where dated ca. 1765-72
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.1232-1924

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Record createdJune 9, 2009
Record URL
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