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Sauce Boat

1790-1800 (made)
Artist/Maker
Heath, Joshua (maker)
Place of origin
Hanley (made)

Sauce boat of lead-glazed earthenware transfer-printed in underglaze blue with a Chinoiserie design. Eight-sided body with long projecting lip and rectangular loop handle. The sides are decorated with a boy riding a buffalo in a landscape partially repeated. On both sides of the rim and on the handle is a border of diaper ornament.

Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Earthenware
Object type
Sauce boat
Materials and techniques
Lead-glazed earthenware transfer-printed in underglaze blue
Earthenware
Lead Glaze
Transfer-Printed
Glazed
Brief description
Sauce boat of lead-glazed earthenware transfer-printed in underglaze blue, made at the factory of Joshua Heath, Hanley, 1790-1800.
Physical description
Sauce boat of lead-glazed earthenware transfer-printed in underglaze blue with a Chinoiserie design. Eight-sided body with long projecting lip and rectangular loop handle. The sides are decorated with a boy riding a buffalo in a landscape partially repeated. On both sides of the rim and on the handle is a border of diaper ornament.
Dimensions
  • Height: 8.6cm
  • Length: 17.1cm
Style
Chinoiserie
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'IH'

    Note
    in relief

  • Undecipherable mark

    Note
    in relief

Gallery label
(23/05/2008)
Sauce-boat
Possibly made at the factory of J. Heath, Hanley, Staffordshire, about 1790-1800
Mark: 'IH' and an undecipherable mark, in relief
Lead-glazed earthenware

3100-1901 Jermyn Street Collection
Credit line
Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street
Object history
This Joshua Heath sauceboat is decorated with the Buffalo Pattern
Subjects depicted
Boys
Buffalo
Landscape
Diaper
Bibliographic reference
"Staffordshire Blue" - W.L. Little, Batsford. 1969, Plate 32
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
3100-1901

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Record createdMarch 31, 2008
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O149196/sauce-boat-heath-joshua/
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