IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 38139 accession number: C.28-1973 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain sauceboat, moulded, lead-glazed, and painted in green, pink and brown enamels. The oval sauceboat stands on a flat, unglazed base, has a pinched lip spout, and scrolled strap handle with kick terminal. The sides are moulded with rococo foliate scrolls, and a shell below the spout, on a ground moulded with cell, trellis and chevron diapers. Each side is painted in Chinese famille-rose style with flowers and a moth, below a brown-edged rim. object type: Soft-paste porcelain sauceboat, painted in Chinese famille-rose style with flowers and a moth in green, pink and brown enamels. title: sauce boat NOTES ----- type: history note value: Dr and Mrs Hugh Statham; Dr Hugh Statham died 1967; Mrs Margaret Statham died 1970 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased from Dr and Mrs H Statham Collection with the Cunliffe Fund and grant-in-aid from the Victoria and Albert Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/38139 SUBJECTS ------------------- shell moth flowers shell moth flowers TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, moulded, lead-glazed, and painted in green, pink and brown enamels moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1754 - 1757 creation date earliest: 1754 creation date latest: 1757 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Longton Hall Porcelain Manufactory maker: Littler, William DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 9.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 18.7 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Rococo: Art and Design in Hogarth's England title: Digging for Early Porcelain, The Archaeology of Six 18th-century British Porcelain Factories CITATIONS -------- Longton Hall Porcelain Rococo: Art and Design in Hogarth's England Digging for Early Porcelain, The Archaeology of Six 18th-century British Porcelain Factories Post-Medieval Archaeology, 27 (1993) ---