Description:
One of a pair of English white salt-glazed stoneware sauceboats with slip-cast oval bodies with shaped rims, fluted sides, pinched spouts, ribbed strap handles ending in pinched terminals, and flat bases. The sides are decorated overall with vertical rows of a flower head over a vertical band of trellis diaper pattern with dots alternating with trellis diaper pattern with stars in low relief on each of the flutes. There are also looped line patterns on each side of the handles. See also HD 60.183 for the same sauceboat form with different decoration. A similar sauceboat was sold at Sotheby's auction of the Harriet Carlton Goldweitz Collection in 2006 where it was noted that an identical white salt-glazed stoneware saucboat, the molding on which matches shards excavated at the Deer Street area of Partsmouth, NH, was exhibited at the Museum of Our National Heritage exhibition, "Unearthing New England's Past: The Ceramic Evidence," January 29, 1984-January 13, 1985, no. 23, held in Lexington, Masachusetts. Although Staffordshire white stoneware had been perfected by about 1720, its possibilities for mass-production were not fully exploited until the 1740s. Then the techniques of press-moulding, slip-casting and enamelling were developed, and the drabness of the greyish stoneware surface was successfully relieved by the addition of all-over decoration.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location); Stoneware Link to share this object record:
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