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

Sauce Boat

ca. 1750 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain, with undulating rim and scrolled loop handle. On each side is a panel surrounded by scrolls and foliage moulded in relief and painted with a Chinoiserie landscape in underglaze blue; the inside is painted with floral sprays.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain, moulded in relief and painted in underglaze blue
Brief description
Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain, moulded in relief and painted in underglaze blue, Lund and Miller, Bristol, ca. 1750
Physical description
Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain, with undulating rim and scrolled loop handle. On each side is a panel surrounded by scrolls and foliage moulded in relief and painted with a Chinoiserie landscape in underglaze blue; the inside is painted with floral sprays.
Dimensions
  • Height: 6.3cm
  • Length: 15.6cm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
'BRISTOLL' (Moulded in relef)
Credit line
Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Honey, W. B. Old English porcelain London: Faber & Faber, 1948, Pl. 67B, pp. 155-157.
  • Watney, Bernard. English blue and white porcelain of the eighteenth century, 2nd ed., London: Faber and Faber, 1973.
  • cf. Nance, E. Morton, "Soaprock Pieces" in E.C.C. Trans., No. 3, 1935, p. 77.
Collection
Accession number
3151-1901

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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