Worcester Porcelain Factory
(Factory)
Soft-paste porcelain sauceboat, painted onglaze with leaves, flowers and insects in red, yellow, green, blue, pink and brown enamels.
Soft-paste porcelain sauceboat, with moulded decoration, and painted onglaze in red, yellow, green, blue, pink and brown enamels. The sides of the oval sauceboat are moulded with five overlapping cos lettuce leaves; the curled-over crabstock handle has leaf and fruit terminals; the oval base is supported on a flat unglazed footring. The sides are sparsely painted with leaves, flowers and insects outlined in black; the rim has a brown line border; the crabstock handle, leaf and fruit terminals are picked out in naturalistic colours; a leaf and flower are painted on the interior.
Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA
Height: 10 cm
Length: 18 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given
(1918-08-28)
by
Griffin, Ralph, MA, FSA
Mid 18th Century
George II
Production date:
circa
AD 1758
Decoration composed of enamels ( red, yellow, green, blue, pink and brown)
presumed lead Lead-glaze Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding : Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and painted onglaze in red, yellow, green, blue, pink and brown enamels
Applying Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.5-1918
Primary reference Number: 133760
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Sauce boat"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/133760 Accessed: 2022-06-26 21:35:11
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