Factory: Derby Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain sauceboat, press-moulded and painted underglaze in blue with chinoiserie decoration.
Soft-paste porcelain, press-moulded and painted underglaze in blue. The butter boat stands on a circular foot. Its rounded oval body rises up into a lip at one end, and has a shell-moulded inward curve at the other to which is attached the ear-shaped handle with a small projecting thumbrest at the top. The wavy upper edge of the boat is moulded with feathering and scrolls. One side is painted underglaze with a Chinese building on an island with trees and bushes, and on the other there is an insect, water, and plants. Inside the lip there is a stylized plant and diaper pattern, and down the back of the handl, two scrolls with a vertical tail below. Inside there is a crab (?). The foot is encircled by a scalloped line.
Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA
Height: 3 1/2 in
Length: 3 3/4 in
Method of acquisition: Given (1918-08-28) by Griffin, Ralph, MA
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1765
Small sauceboats like this one are often described as butter boats and may have been used for melted butter.
Decoration composed of blue
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Press-moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain, press-moulded and painted underglaze in blue
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.54-1918
Primary reference Number: 137177
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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