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White earthenware toy service sauceboat, bat-printed in puce with a mother and child.
Sauceboat, from part of a toy dinner service. White earthenware with pale-blue tinted glaze, bat-printed in puce and banded in blue enamel. The sauceboat is decorated, on one side, with a mother seated on a sabre-legged chair with a child standing in front of her on a very low stool, and, on the other, a mother seated on a long stool with a little boy kneeling on a box in front of her.
Given by G.H.W. Rylands in memory of his mother Betha Wolferstan Rylands.
Height: 6.1 cm
Length: 9.8 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 (1997) by Rylands, G.H.W.
Early 19th Century
Circa
1815
-
1825
English, probably Staffordshire or Tyneside
Decoration composed of enamel ( blue)
Lead-glazing : White earthenware with pale-blue tinted glaze, bat-printed in puce and banded in blue enamel.
Accession number: C.80.29-1997
Primary reference Number: 76101
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Sauceboat" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76101 Accessed: 2023-05-29 09:54:55
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