Butter Boat
1794-99 (made)
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Butter boat of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Wavy outline and with a scroll handle. The base is moulded in relief with low gadroons. Painted with bouquets of flowers and detached sprays in pink, blue, green, red and yellow. Border of cresting in red and brown inside the lip. The handle is picked out in gold.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels, gilded and moulded |
| Brief description | Butter boat of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Caughley porcelain factory, ca. 1794-99 |
| Physical description | Butter boat of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Wavy outline and with a scroll handle. The base is moulded in relief with low gadroons. Painted with bouquets of flowers and detached sprays in pink, blue, green, red and yellow. Border of cresting in red and brown inside the lip. The handle is picked out in gold. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | A star (Impressed) |
| Credit line | Given by E. F. Broderip, Esq. |
| Production | Probably enamelled outside the factory. Previously attributed to 'Chelsea-Derby, c. 1775-80' |
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| Bibliographic reference | For this and similar enamelled patterns attributed to the Caughley factory itself see Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, Caughley in Colour, exhibition catalogue, 2005, cat. 218-222 |
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| Accession number | C.956-1924 |
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| Record created | June 11, 2009 |
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