Sauce boat of hard-paste porcelain, moulded in low relief and painted in enamels, Plymouth porcelain factory, England, 1768-1770

Sauce boat of hard-paste porcelain, with scrolled edge and foot and loop handle. The two sides and back are decorated with raised scrolls enclosing panels which are filled in with flowers in colours. The front is painted with a floral spray and inside the lip is a purple ornament.

Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street

Given by W. Cookworthy, Esq. Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street

J.G.V. Mallet's catalogue entry for this item in the Rococo exhibition catalogue (see below) states:
'...In 1768 when William Cookworthy began to produce a true hard-paste porcelain from the Cornish materials he had discovered, he showed himself an innovator in the chemistry of porcelain-making, whereas in style he remained attached to a somewhat retardataire rococo. The moulding of this particularly recalls the silver prototypes with which it would have been in competition.'

3096-1901