Sauce Boat

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

Artist/Maker	Philip Christian & Co. (manufacturer)
Place of origin	Liverpool (made)

Sauce-boat with scroll handle, of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Boat shaped on a spreading foot, moulded in relief with leaves, flowers and scrollwork. Painted with flowers and a peacock in green, purple, yellow, red, pink and gold. Border of cresting in red and gold. Formal flowers inside the lip in green, purple, blue and red.

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Categories	Ceramics Porcelain
Object type	Sauce boat
Materials and techniques	Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels, gilded and moulded Soft Paste Porcelain Enamels Painted Gilded Moulded
Brief description	Sauce-boat with scroll handle, of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Philip Christian & Co., Liverpool, ca. 1765-72
Physical description	Sauce-boat with scroll handle, of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Boat shaped on a spreading foot, moulded in relief with leaves, flowers and scrollwork. Painted with flowers and a peacock in green, purple, yellow, red, pink and gold. Border of cresting in red and gold. Formal flowers inside the lip in green, purple, blue and red.
Dimensions	Length: 16.5cm Width: 10.2cm
Credit line	Given by E. F. Broderip, Esq.
Subjects depicted	Leaves Flowers Scrollwork Peacock Cresting Border
Bibliographic references	For this sauceboat shape and decoration, see Nicholas Panes, British Porcelain Sauceboats of the 18th Century (2009), no. 315, where dated ca. 1770 and where attributed to Philip Christian with the proviso that an attribution to the Liverpool factory of James Pennington is also possible (but if made there, Panes suggests, it would have been decorated elsewhere) For this pattern, see also Hillis, Maurice. Liverpool Porcelain, 1756-1804. 2011, pl. 6.105, where dated ca. 1765-72
Collection	Ceramics Collection
Accession number	C.1232-1924

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Record created	June 9, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O248219/sauce-boat-philip-christian/

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