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Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Sauce Boat

ca. 1770 (made)
Artist/Maker
Worcester Porcelain Factory (manufacturer)
Place of origin
Worcester (made)

Sauce boat of porcelain, painted with underglaze blue and moulded in relief, and with bowed sides moulded with bunches of flowers, a wavy rim, projecting lip and a scrolled loop handle, and outside under the lip and inside are floral sprays in blue, and the inside is also painted with a border of Chinese diaper-pattern.

Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Porcelain
Object type
Sauce boat
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted with underglaze blue and moulded in relief
Porcelain
Painted
Moulded
Brief description
Sauce boat of porcelain, painted with underglaze blue and moulded in relief, and with bowed sides moulded with bunches of flowers, a wavy rim, projecting lip and a scrolled loop handle, made by Worcester porcelain factory, Worcester, ca. 1770.
Physical description
Sauce boat of porcelain, painted with underglaze blue and moulded in relief, and with bowed sides moulded with bunches of flowers, a wavy rim, projecting lip and a scrolled loop handle, and outside under the lip and inside are floral sprays in blue, and the inside is also painted with a border of Chinese diaper-pattern.
Dimensions
  • Height: 8.9cm
  • Length: 17.1cm
Marks and inscriptions
An open crescent (Painted in underglaze blue)
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
Purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from 'Coster' (da Costa), Utrecht, for 9 shillings in October 1873
Subject depicted
Flowers
Bibliographic references
  • Watney, B. English Blue and White Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century. London : Faber & Faber, 2nd ed. 1973.
  • For this pattern see Nicholas Panes British Porcelain Sauceboats of the 18th Century (2009), cat. 234, where dated ca. 1768-70
Other number
Sch. I 482 - Schreiber number
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
414:496-1885

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Record createdJanuary 16, 2009
Record URL
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