Factory: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain sauceboat, painted in polychrome enamels with floral sprays, and insects.
Soft-paste porcelain sauceboat, painted in red, yellow, green, blue, pink and brown enamels. The oval sauceboat is modelled in the shape of a strawberry leaf, the crabstock handle with flower, fruit, leaf and tendril terminals, the base also with applied leaves, flowers, fruit and tendrils, and with four rudimentary feet. It is painted inside and out with scattered flower sprays and insects, within a brown-edged rim.
History note: Unknown before donor
Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA
Height: 10.3 cm
Height: 4 in
Width: 20.3 cm
Width: 8 in
Method of acquisition: Given (1918-08-28) by Griffin, Ralph, MA, FSA
18th Century, Mid
George II
Red anchor period (1752-1756)
Circa
1754
-
1755
These sauceboats were made in two sizes, and would have originally had stands. They were in production between 1752 and 1756, and the present example is of the larger size, the smaller being 15.9 cm (6 1/4 in) in lenght. These almost certainly correspond to the 'large sauce boats and plates' listed several times in the Chelsea sale catalogue for March, 1755. This shape is also found in Bow porcelain.
Decoration composed of enamels ( red, yellow, green, blue, pink and brown)
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Glazing (coating) : Soft-paste porcelain, moulded and decorated with floral designs in polychrome enamels
Accession number: C.14-1918
Primary reference Number: 131175
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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