Sauce Boat
ca. 1750-52 (made)
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Butter boat of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels. Wavy edge with a scroll handle. Moulded in relief with scrolls, foliage and flowers forming reserved panels in which are painted a bird and flowers in Chinese style in red, blue, green and yellow.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and moulded |
| Brief description | Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels, probably Bristol porcelain factory, ca. 1750-52 |
| Physical description | Butter boat of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels. Wavy edge with a scroll handle. Moulded in relief with scrolls, foliage and flowers forming reserved panels in which are painted a bird and flowers in Chinese style in red, blue, green and yellow. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | A cross (Incised) |
| Credit line | Given by E. F. Broderip, Esq. |
| Production | Possibly made at Bristol and decorated at Worcester; possibly made and decorated at Worcester using a mould previously used at Bristol |
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| Bibliographic reference | For another sauceboat of this moulded pattern attributed to the Bristol factory see Nicholas Panes British Porcelain Sauceboats of the 18th Century (2009), cat. 180, where dated ca. 1750-52 |
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| Accession number | C.1216-1924 |
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| Record created | June 8, 2009 |
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