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

Butter Boat

ca. 1758-1760 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Butter boat of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels. With a wavy edge and moulded in relief with foliate scrolls, and with a foliate loop handle. Painted with flowers in pink, red, green, blue and yellow.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and moulded
Brief description
Butter boat of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels, Liverpool, Richar Chaffers, ca. 1758-60
Physical description
Butter boat of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels. With a wavy edge and moulded in relief with foliate scrolls, and with a foliate loop handle. Painted with flowers in pink, red, green, blue and yellow.
Dimensions
  • Length: 9.5cm
  • Maximum width: 6.4cm
Credit line
Given by E. F. Broderip, Esq.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • For this sauceboat and handle shape, but with underglaze blue decoration, see Nicholas Panes, British Porcelain Sauceboats of the 18th Century (2009), no. 314, where dated ca. 1758-60
  • Hillis, Maurice. Liverpool Porcelain, 1756-1804. 2011, pl. 5.159, where dated ca. 1758-60
Collection
Accession number
C.1223-1924

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Record createdJune 8, 2009
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