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Sauce Boat or Cream Jug

ca. 1755 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Sauce boat or cream jug of soft-paste porcelain, the outside moulded with vine-leaves, the edges and veins picked out in colour. Base unglazed. Stalk handle restored.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain, moulded and painted in underglaze blue
Brief description
Sauce boat or cream jug, soft-paste porcelain, moulded and painted in underglaze blue, made by Longton Hall porcelain factory, Longton, ca. 1755.
Physical description
Sauce boat or cream jug of soft-paste porcelain, the outside moulded with vine-leaves, the edges and veins picked out in colour. Base unglazed. Stalk handle restored.
Dimensions
  • Height: 7.9cm
  • Length: 12.7cm
Credit line
Given by E. F. Broderip, Esq.
Subject depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Bemrose, William Longton Hall porcelain. London [etc.] Bemrose and sons ltd., 1906, illUs. N. XXX.
  • For this shape, see Nicholas Panes, British Porcelain Sauceboats of the 18th Century (2009), no. 248, where dated ca. 1755
Collection
Accession number
C.561-1924

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Record createdMay 11, 2009
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