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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Sauce Boat

ca. 1765-1770 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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

Categories
Object type
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.
Dimensions
  • Length: 13.3cm
  • Width: 7.6cm
Style
Credit line
Given by E. F. Broderip, Esq.
Subjects depicted
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
Collection
Accession number
C.462-1924

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Record createdMay 5, 2009
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