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

Sauce Boat

1750-1752 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Of silver form with wavy top and contracted foot, moulded in relief with festoons; scrolled handle. Painted in enamels with small bouquets and detached flowers; gilt edge.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Sauce boat, soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Lund and Miller factory, Bristol, decorated in London, 1750-1752.
Physical description
Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Of silver form with wavy top and contracted foot, moulded in relief with festoons; scrolled handle. Painted in enamels with small bouquets and detached flowers; gilt edge.
Dimensions
  • Height: 11.7cm
  • Length: 19.4cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Bristoll' (Moulded in relief on the base)
  • A straight cut in the footring
Credit line
Bequeathed by Mr Wallace Elliot
Object history
London, Hyam, 1923. From the W. Edkins Collection (sold May 22, 1891) purchased by Frederick Litchfield. Afterwards in the Charles Borrodaile Collection, then in the E.S. Mc Euen Collection.
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.57-1938

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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