IDENTIFIERS
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id:	137177
accession number:	C.54-1918

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 15 July 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
object type: soft-paste porcelain sauceboat, press-moulded and painted underglaze in blue with chinoiserie decoration.
title:	butter boat

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/137177





TECHNIQUES
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soft-paste porcelain, press-moulded and painted underglaze in blue
press-moulding
TECHNIQUES
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glazing (coating)

CATEGORIES
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category: soft-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1765 - 1765
creation date earliest:	1765
creation date latest:	1765
culture:	18th Century, third quarter#
culture:	George III

CREATORS
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maker: Derby Porcelain Manufactory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: in
value: 3 1/2

dimension: Length
units: in
value: 3 3/4



CITATIONS
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The Ceramics of Derbyshire
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