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Sauce Boat

ca. 1765-1770 (made)
Artist/Maker
James Pennington's Factory (manufacturer)
Place of origin
Liverpool (made)

Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain, in the form of a duck, moulded in relief in imitation of feathers and feet; decorated outside and within with flowering and other plants.

Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Porcelain
Object type
Sauce boat
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain, moulded in relief and with underglaze blue decoration
Soft Paste Porcelain
Cobalt Oxide
Glazed
Moulded
Brief description
Sauce boat, in the form of a duck, soft-paste porcelain, moulded in relief and with underglaze blue decoration, James Pennington's factory, Liverpool, ca. 1765-1770.
Physical description
Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain, in the form of a duck, moulded in relief in imitation of feathers and feet; decorated outside and within with flowering and other plants.
Dimensions
  • Length: 17.8cm
  • Width: 8.9cm
Credit line
Given by E. F. Broderip, Esq.
Subjects depicted
Ducks
Flowers
Plants
Bibliographic references
  • Rackham, Bernard. 'Liverpool Porcelain' in E.P.C. Trans. No. II, 1929, p. 36
  • Watney, Bernard. English blue and white porcelain of the eighteenth century, 2nd ed., London: Faber and Faber, 1973
  • For this sauceboat shape, see Nicholas Panes, British Porcelain Sauceboats of the 18th Century (2009), no. 340, where dated ca. 1770
  • Hillis, Maurice. Liverpool Porcelain, 1756-1804. 2011, pl. 4.92, where dated ca. 1765-70
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.925-1924

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Record createdMay 28, 2009
Record URL
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