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

Sauce Tureen

1814-1826 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Sauce tureen with cover and stand of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Decorated with sprays of pink roses amid green foliage, and with butterflies. Gilt dentil edges and scroll borders.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 3 parts.

  • Sugar Basin
  • Cover
  • Stand
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels, gilded and moulded
Brief description
Sauce tureen with cover and stand of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Swansea Pottery, Swansea, 1814-1826 decorated at Robins and Randall, London.
Physical description
Sauce tureen with cover and stand of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Decorated with sprays of pink roses amid green foliage, and with butterflies. Gilt dentil edges and scroll borders.
Marks and inscriptions
'SWANSEA' (In red)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Joseph Henry Jacobs
Production
Decorated at Robins and Randall, London
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.47 to B-1950

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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