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Production: Leeds Pottery
Cream-coloured earthenware, moulded lead-glazed and decorated in green glaze. The sauce boat is in the shape of a swimming or sitting duck. The body is a cream, and the neck, head and beak are coloured green.
History note: J. R. Kidson, 116 Albion Street, Leeds.
Bequeathed by Mrs Ethel Adela Harding
Height: 12.7 cm
Length: 19.7 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: Bequeathed (1946-05-15) by Harding, Ethel Adela, Mrs
Late 18th century
Circa
1780
CE
-
1790
CE
Accession as Leeds, and by a cataloguer 'Queried whether by Josiah Wedgwood, a suggestion later rejected.
Decoration composed of copper-oxide
cream
Earthenware
Lead-glaze
Accession number: EC.12-1946
Primary reference Number: 76873
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) "Sauce boat" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76873 Accessed: 2023-06-02 07:46:23
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University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: C.2334 & A-1928
Accession Number: C.653-1928
Accession Number: C.3142-1928
Accession Number: MAR.M.30-1912
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