Factory: Bow Porcelain Manufactory
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.
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
Bequeathed by Miss Statham, accepted by H.M.Government in 1990 in lieu of Inheritance Tax, and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 14.3 cm
Length: 22 cm
Method of acquisition: Allocated (1992) by H.M. Government
18th Century, Mid
George II
Production date:
circa
AD 1752
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.
Decoration composed of enamels ( puce, yellow, green, and blue)
containing bone ash
Soft-paste porcelain
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded and decorated in famille rose style in polychrome enamels
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.15-1992
Primary reference Number: 118639
Old object number: Statham Loan 8-1970
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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