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

Butter Boat

1794-99 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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

Categories
Object type
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.
Dimensions
  • Length: 8.3cm
  • Width: 4.3cm
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'
Subjects depicted
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
Collection
Accession number
C.956-1924

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Record createdJune 11, 2009
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