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Factory: Worcester Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain sauceboat, painted in enamels in Chinese famille verte style with birds, plants and insects
Soft-paste porcelain sauceboat, moulded and decorated onglaze in red, yellow, green, blue and manganese enamels. Of silver shape with rounded sides, each with rococo scroll work panels in shallow relief, a small panel below the pinched lip spout and three small oval panels on the high waisted oval foot; ribbed scroll handle with leaf terminal and wavy-edged rim. Painted in Chinese famille verte style with a heron and a willow tree, the reverse with a heron and a lotus, surrounded by scattered sprigs and insects; the interior with a border of flowerheads and diaper, and a large central flower spray.
History note: Purchased from Mr A Fleming, The Casket, Southsea on 16 September, 1922 for £1.10.0 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 7.5 cm
Length: 19.0 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 (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Mid-18th Century
George II
Circa
1752
CE
-
1756
CE
The colouring of the design was influenced by Chinese famille verte porcelain
Decoration composed of enamels ( red, yellow, green, blue and manganese)
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
steatitic
Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and decorated onglaze in red, yellow, green, blue and manganese enamels
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.3138-1928
Primary reference Number: 33108
Old object number: 3942, vol.20
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) "Sauceboat" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/33108 Accessed: 2023-04-02 13:44:02
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