Sauce Boat Stand
ca. 1800 (made)
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Sauce boat stand of pearlware painted with underglaze blue and splashes of yellow. Heart-shaped, in the form of a goodse with wings surronding the central well for the sauce boat, the tail forming a small shell-like handle and the neck extended to form a loop handle, the head lying to the right, across the wing. Covered with a blue stained lead glaze, the wings splashed with cobalt blue and the beak with orange-yellow.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Pearlware |
| Brief description | Sauceboat stand (for C.34-1930), pearlware, splashed with underglaze blue and yellow, Staffordshire, ca. 1800 |
| Physical description | Sauce boat stand of pearlware painted with underglaze blue and splashes of yellow. Heart-shaped, in the form of a goodse with wings surronding the central well for the sauce boat, the tail forming a small shell-like handle and the neck extended to form a loop handle, the head lying to the right, across the wing. Covered with a blue stained lead glaze, the wings splashed with cobalt blue and the beak with orange-yellow. |
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| Object history | This is a stand for a fox and goose sauce boat, of which the museum holds two examples: C.34 and C.35-1940. |
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| Accession number | C.161-1981 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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