Silver sauce boat with shell capitals and hoof feet

An image of Sauce boat. HC, silversmith, Ireland, Dublin. Oval, with wavy edge rim; high at the back; the sides fluted; standing on three cast scroll legs with shell capitals and hoof feet; the double scroll handle with lion’s mask thumb-piece and paw capital; engraved with a crest to the left of the lip (later). Silver, height, to top of handle, 9.3 cm, width, from lip to handle, 13.7 cm, weight, overall, 250 g, circa 1750. Rococo.

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Sauce boat. HC, silversmith, Ireland, Dublin. Oval, with wavy edge rim; high at the back; the sides fluted; standing on three cast scroll legs with shell capitals and hoof feet; the double scroll handle with lion’s mask thumb-piece and paw capital; engraved with a crest to the left of the lip (later). Silver, height, to top of handle, 9.3 cm, width, from lip to handle, 13.7 cm, weight, overall, 250 g, circa 1750. Rococo.

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Accession Number: MAR.M.30-1912
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/1.0
Camera: NIKON D70
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 837 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 116.23kB
Exposure time: 1/60
Captured: 2007:06:28 11:23:37

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18th Century capitals cast engraved engraving feet Fitz_AA fluted foot Georgian handle handled hoof hooves Ireland Irish jug lions oval paws raised sauce boat sauce-boat sauceboat scrolls service ware serving piece shells Silver silverware spout spouted tableware three-legged thumb-piece thumbpiece

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