Sauce Boat
ca. 1755 (made)
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Sauce boat of hard-paste porcelain. Double-lipped. Heavily moulded with rocaille fluting, gadroons and scrolls. Modelled and applied dragons (as handles), leaves and flowers. Applied elements naturalistically coloured; moulding partly gilded. Inside painted with Manierblumen.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels, moulded, modelled and gilded |
| Brief description | Sauce boat, hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded, made by Meissen porcelain factory, Germany, ca. 1755. |
| Physical description | Sauce boat of hard-paste porcelain. Double-lipped. Heavily moulded with rocaille fluting, gadroons and scrolls. Modelled and applied dragons (as handles), leaves and flowers. Applied elements naturalistically coloured; moulding partly gilded. Inside painted with Manierblumen. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Crossed swords (Factory mark, in blue) |
| Object history | One of a pair, 1998&A-1855. From Bernal Collection. |
| Production | Attribution from the manuscript catalogue dates from about 1970 and was compiled by William Hutton of the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio. |
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| Accession number | 1998A-1855 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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