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Sauce Boat

ca. 1765-70 (made)
Artist/Maker
West Pans Factory (manufacturer)
Littler, William (maker)
Place of origin
West Pans (made)

Sauceboat of porcelain painted with underglaze blue and gilded. Moulded in the form of overlapping leaves coloured deep blue at the edges and touched with oil gilding. Twig handle.

Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Porcelain
Scotland
Object type
Sauce boat
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted with underglaze blue and oil-gilded and moulded
Porcelain
Painted
Glazed
Oil Gilded
Moulded
Brief description
Sauceboat of porcelain painted with underglaze blue and oil-gilded, West Pans factory, East Lothian, ca. 1765-70
Physical description
Sauceboat of porcelain painted with underglaze blue and gilded. Moulded in the form of overlapping leaves coloured deep blue at the edges and touched with oil gilding. Twig handle.
Dimensions
  • Height: 8.5cm
  • Length: 20.3cm
  • Depth: 11.0cm
Credit line
Bequeathed by Mr Arthur Hurst
Subject depicted
Leaves
Bibliographic references
  • For this sauceboat shape, see Nicholas Panes, British Porcelain Sauceboats of the 18th Century (2009), no. 371, where dated ca. 1765-70
  • Arthur Lane, 'William Littler of Longton Hall and West Pans, Scotland', ECC Transactions, vol.5, part 2, 1961, pp.82-94
  • George Haggarty, Out of the Blue - 18th Century Scottish Porcelain, exhibition catalogue, National Museums Edinburgh, 2008
  • George Haggarty, 'Pots at the Pans: William Littler's West Pans Porcelain Factory', Transactions of the East Lothian Antiquarian and Field Naturalists' Society, 28, pp.5-29
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.266-1940

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
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