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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 143, The Timothy Sainsbury Gallery

Sauce Boat

ca. 1750-52 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Sauce boat of porcelain, with gilded decoration, and moulded in relief with wave-like projections on the rim and a long pointed lip, and with an elaborately scrolled loop handle with a small mask in relief near the upper attachment, and with a spreading high foot, and decorated on the outside with festoons of flowers in relief on the body, enclosing large floral sprays in gold, and the inside has a gilt spray on the bottom and a formal gilt border, and the foot has flowers in relief and a border of gilt cresting


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain, gilded
Brief description
Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain, with gilded decoration, moulded in relief with wave-like projections on the rim and a long pointed lip, and with an elaborately scrolled loop handle with a small mask in relief, made by Bow Porcelain Factory, London, ca. 1750-52
Physical description
Sauce boat of porcelain, with gilded decoration, and moulded in relief with wave-like projections on the rim and a long pointed lip, and with an elaborately scrolled loop handle with a small mask in relief near the upper attachment, and with a spreading high foot, and decorated on the outside with festoons of flowers in relief on the body, enclosing large floral sprays in gold, and the inside has a gilt spray on the bottom and a formal gilt border, and the foot has flowers in relief and a border of gilt cresting
Dimensions
  • Height: 13.3cm
  • Length: 23.2cm
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
One of a pair of sauce boats 414:87&/A-1885 (Sch. I 35&A); on this, however, see below.
One sauceboat was purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Mr or Mrs Paradise, Stamford, for 5 shillings in October 1870, and the other from Captain Cooper, Hardingstone for £1 in February 1871
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
For this pattern see Nicholas Panes British Porcelain Sauceboats of the 18th Century (2009), cat. 85, where dated ca. 1750-52
Other number
Sch. I 35 - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:87-1885

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Record createdDecember 4, 2008
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