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Sauce Boat

ca. 1765-1780 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

The interior has a flower spray. The exterior has a harbour and a coastal scene with ships and buildings within rococo cartouches linked under the handle and spout with festoons of flowers with sgraffito decoration. All the decoration is in blue.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Greenish white. Foot-rim wiped clean of glaze.
Shape: Press-moulded. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted
Brief description
Delftware sauce boat, with painted decoration depicting coastal and harbour scenes, London, probably Abigail Griffith, Lambeth High Street, ca. 1765-1780.
Physical description
The interior has a flower spray. The exterior has a harbour and a coastal scene with ships and buildings within rococo cartouches linked under the handle and spout with festoons of flowers with sgraffito decoration. All the decoration is in blue.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Greenish white. Foot-rim wiped clean of glaze.
Shape: Press-moulded. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Dimensions
  • Height: 12.2cm
  • Length: 21.2cm
  • Width: 9.3cm
Credit line
Mellor Bequest
Object history
Exhibited: Rijksmuseum, No: 164.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Archer, Michael. Delftware: the tin-glazed earthenware of the British Isles. A catalogue of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: HMSO, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1997. ISBN 0 11 290499 8
Other number
G20. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.
Collection
Accession number
C.88-1947

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Record createdJanuary 29, 2000
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