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

Sauce Boat

1752-1753 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels. With a wavy scrolled edge, scroll handle and spreading foot. Painted with sprays of flowers in famille rose style. Inside the lip are small sprigs.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels
Brief description
Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels, Bow Porcelain Factory, Bow, 1752-1753.
Physical description
Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels. With a wavy scrolled edge, scroll handle and spreading foot. Painted with sprays of flowers in famille rose style. Inside the lip are small sprigs.
Dimensions
  • Height: 13.3cm
  • Without handle length: 18.1cm
Credit line
Given by Herbert Eccles, Esq.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
For this pattern see Nicholas Panes British Porcelain Sauceboats of the 18th Century (2009), cat. 87, where dated ca. 1752-53
Collection
Accession number
C.844-1920

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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