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

Sauce Tureen

1770-1781 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 3 parts.

  • Tureen
  • Cover
  • Stand
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.
Dimensions
  • Tureen with cover height: 10.8cm
  • Tureen with cover length: 18.7cm
Credit line
Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Honey, W. B. Old English porcelain London: Faber & Faber, 1948, p. 236, note 1.
Collection
Accession number
3116 to B-1901

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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