Sauce Boat
ca. 1765-1770 (made)
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Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain, wavy outline, moulded in relief with fluting and scale pattern, and scrolls enclosing panels in which are decorated with flowering plants, trees and palisades in Chinese style; the spreading foot is gadrooned; foliate scrol handle. Inside are painted flowering sprays at the lip and bottom.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain, moulded in relief, with underglaze blue decoration |
| Brief description | Sauce boat, soft-paste porcelain, moulded in relief, with underglaze blue decoration, England (Liverpool), Philip Christian, ca. 1765-70 |
| Physical description | Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain, wavy outline, moulded in relief with fluting and scale pattern, and scrolls enclosing panels in which are decorated with flowering plants, trees and palisades in Chinese style; the spreading foot is gadrooned; foliate scrol handle. Inside are painted flowering sprays at the lip and bottom. |
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| Credit line | Given by E. F. Broderip, Esq. |
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| Bibliographic reference | For another of this shape, but with different handle and painting, see Nicholas Panes, British Porcelain Sauceboats of the 18th Century (2009), no. 318, where dated ca. 1765-70 |
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| Accession number | C.462-1924 |
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| Record created | May 5, 2009 |
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