Sauce boat: C.15-1992

Maker(s)

Factory: Bow Porcelain Manufactory

Entities

• Sauce boat
• sauce boat

Categories

• Soft-paste porcelain

Description

Soft-paste porcelain sauceboat, moulded and decorated in polychrome enamels in famille rose style

Soft-paste porcelain sauceboat, painted in enamel-colours in famille rose style. The boat stands on an oval foot, its body is moulded in relief with scrolls and garlands, and its handle with projecting scrolls. On each side there are one small and two large floral sprays, and on the foot, four single flowers. In the middle of the interior there are three scattered flowers, and a spray. Round the rim there is a diaper border broken by three panels containing a flower, and one containing a leaf.

Notes

History note: Collection of the late Dr Hugh Statham (1895-1967) and Mrs Margaret Statham (d. 1970); lent anonymously in 1970 by their daughter, Miss Beryl Statham (d. 1990) by whom bequeathed

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Miss Statham, accepted by H.M.Government in 1990 in lieu of Inheritance Tax, and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum

Place(s) associated

• Stratford-le-Bow ⪼ Essex ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Allocated (1992) by H.M. Government

Dating

18th Century, Mid
George II
Production date: circa AD 1752

Note

The shape was based on a silver prototype. Paul de Lamerie had introduced silver sauceboats decorated with cast festoons of flowers in the 1730s. Bow sauceboats with dragon handles and bodies moulded with festoons of fruit were also based on a silver prototype.

School or Style

Rococo