Sauce Boat
1934 (made)
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Sauce boat of earthenware, boat shaped with curved sides and large pouring lip. The handle is formed by the figure of a female acrobat with black hair and orange lips. She is wearing a green costume with magenta decorated white spots, magenta starred and gold spotted tights and gold boots. her toes touch the base of the sauce boat, her body arched backwards and her head and hair join the rim. The surface of the sauce boat is decorated with, around the rim, partly printed and partly painted swags and borders in magenta, gold and green. Around the foot a decorative painted border in yellow triangles outlined in orange and gold.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware, transfer-printed, painted and glazed |
| Brief description | Earthenware sauce boat, designed by Laura Knight, made by A. J. Wilkinson & Co. Ltd. under the direction of Clarice Cliff, England (Burslem), 1934 |
| Physical description | Sauce boat of earthenware, boat shaped with curved sides and large pouring lip. The handle is formed by the figure of a female acrobat with black hair and orange lips. She is wearing a green costume with magenta decorated white spots, magenta starred and gold spotted tights and gold boots. her toes touch the base of the sauce boat, her body arched backwards and her head and hair join the rim. The surface of the sauce boat is decorated with, around the rim, partly printed and partly painted swags and borders in magenta, gold and green. Around the foot a decorative painted border in yellow triangles outlined in orange and gold. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'DESIGNED BY / Laura Knight / A.R.A / COPYRIGHT RESERVED / FIRST EDITION / 1934' (Printed mark in magenta) |
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| Production | Made under the direction of Clarice Cliff. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Hawkins, Jennifer and Marianne Hollis (ed), Thirties: British art and design before the war London, Arts Council, 1979
p.153 |
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| Accession number | CIRC.562-1976 |
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| Record created | March 31, 2008 |
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