Sauce Tureen
1770-1781 (made)
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Sauce-tureen with cover and stand of hard-paste porcelain. Oval, the tureen and cover reeded on the outside and the rim of the stand fluted inside; the tureen has two loop handles, and all have scalloped edge. The three pieces are painted in green, red and yellow, with laurel festoons and borders of husk-pattern. The knob of the cover is in the form of a rose-spray.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 3 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt |
| Brief description | Sauce-tureen with cover and stand of hard-paste porcelain, decorated in enamels and gilt, painted possibly by Henry Bone, made by Bristol porcelain factory, England, 1770-1781 |
| Physical description | Sauce-tureen with cover and stand of hard-paste porcelain. Oval, the tureen and cover reeded on the outside and the rim of the stand fluted inside; the tureen has two loop handles, and all have scalloped edge. The three pieces are painted in green, red and yellow, with laurel festoons and borders of husk-pattern. The knob of the cover is in the form of a rose-spray. |
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| Credit line | Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street |
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| Bibliographic reference | Honey, W. B. Old English porcelain London: Faber & Faber, 1948, p. 236, note 1.
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| Accession number | 3116 to B-1901 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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