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Sauce Boat

ca. 1756 (made)
Artist/Maker
Worcester Porcelain Factory (manufacturer)
Place of origin
Worcester (made)

Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain, transfer-printed in black and painted in colours. Boat-shaped with two handles amidships, moulded in relief after a silver original with wreaths (picked out in green) and shell pattern (picked out in purple) and painted inside and on the upper edge with red and blue flowers and leaves; inside at the bottom is a black print of swimming swans, outside four small prints, each with two figures in landscapes, typifying the four seasons.

Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Porcelain
Object type
Sauce boat
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain, transfer-printed and painted in enamels
Soft Paste Porcelain
Transfer-Printed
Painted
Brief description
Sauceboat, one of a pair, soft-paste porcelain, transfer-printed in black and painted in enamel colours, Worcester porcelain factory, England, ca. 1756
Physical description
Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain, transfer-printed in black and painted in colours. Boat-shaped with two handles amidships, moulded in relief after a silver original with wreaths (picked out in green) and shell pattern (picked out in purple) and painted inside and on the upper edge with red and blue flowers and leaves; inside at the bottom is a black print of swimming swans, outside four small prints, each with two figures in landscapes, typifying the four seasons.
Dimensions
  • Length: 19.1cm
Credit line
Bequeathed by Mr Wallace Elliot
Object history
London, Amor, 1923.
Subjects depicted
Figures
Floral Patterns
Swans
Bibliographic references
  • Cook, Cyril The life and work of Robert Hancock London: Chapman and Hall, 1948, p. 51.
  • Barrett, Franklin A. Worecester Porecelain London: Faber & Faber, 1953, p. 21 & Plate 36A.
  • For this pattern and print see Nicholas Panes British Porcelain Sauceboats of the 18th Century (2009), cat. 194-5, where dated ca. 1756
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.30-1938

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
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