Sauce boat: C.14-1918

Maker(s)

Factory: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

Entities

• Sauce boat

Categories

• Soft-paste porcelain

Description

Soft-paste porcelain sauceboat, painted in polychrome enamels with floral sprays, and insects.

Soft-paste porcelain sauceboat, painted in red, yellow, green, blue, pink and brown enamels. The oval sauceboat is modelled in the shape of a strawberry leaf, the crabstock handle with flower, fruit, leaf and tendril terminals, the base also with applied leaves, flowers, fruit and tendrils, and with four rudimentary feet. It is painted inside and out with scattered flower sprays and insects, within a brown-edged rim.

Notes

History note: Unknown before donor

Legal notes

Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1918-08-28) by Griffin, Ralph, MA, FSA

Dating

18th Century, Mid
George II
Red anchor period (1752-1756)
Circa 1754 - 1755

Note

These sauceboats were made in two sizes, and would have originally had stands. They were in production between 1752 and 1756, and the present example is of the larger size, the smaller being 15.9 cm (6 1/4 in) in lenght. These almost certainly correspond to the 'large sauce boats and plates' listed several times in the Chelsea sale catalogue for March, 1755. This shape is also found in Bow porcelain.