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Sauce Boat

ca. 1758-60 (made)
Artist/Maker
Vauxhall Porcelain Factory (manufacturer)
Place of origin
London (made)

Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain, wavy outline; moulded in relief on the sides with flowers and foliage, scrolls at the edge, fluting and incised diaper pattern at the base, shells above and below the upper junction of the handle and body. Decorated outside with flowers in white on a blue ground; inside, a border and a spray at the bottom.

Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Porcelain
Object type
Sauce boat
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, incised and with underglaze blue decoration
Soft Paste Porcelain
Cobalt Oxide
Glazed
Moulded
Incised
Brief description
Sauce boat, soft-paste porcelain, moulded, incised and with underglaze blue decoration, Vauxhall porcelain factory, England (London), ca. 1758-60
Physical description
Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain, wavy outline; moulded in relief on the sides with flowers and foliage, scrolls at the edge, fluting and incised diaper pattern at the base, shells above and below the upper junction of the handle and body. Decorated outside with flowers in white on a blue ground; inside, a border and a spray at the bottom.
Dimensions
  • Length: 16.5cm
  • Width: 8.9cm
Credit line
Given by E. F. Broderip, Esq.
Production
Previously attributed to Liverpool (probably William Ball factory) in the register.
Subjects depicted
Flowers
Foliage
Scrolls
Diaper-Work
Bibliographic references
  • Jedding, Hermann. Europäisches Porzellan. München: Keysersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, c. 1971
  • Dixon, Joseph Lawrence. English porcelain of the eighteenth century. London: Faber & Faber, 1952, Pl. 88 (a) & p. 41
  • For this sauceboat or pattern, see Nicholas Panes, British Porcelain Sauceboats of the 18th Century (2009), cat. 273, where dated ca. 1758-60
  • Watney, Bernard. English blue and white porcelain of the eighteenth century, 2nd ed., London: Faber and Faber, 1973, pl. 48C
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.770-1924

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Record createdMay 21, 2009
Record URL
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