Description:
Soft-paste porcelain small sauceboat, molded applied handle, decorated with underglaze cobalt blue decoration, transfer printed in blue with fruit (cherries, melon) and leaf design, possibly cut up portions of the Apple and Damsons pattern. Of ‘Gadroon Boat’ shape, fluted around the lower body and transfer-printed in underglaze-blue on one side with a cluster of fruit and
flowers and a foliate sprig, and on the other side with a foliate sprig between two sprays of fruit and flowers, the lightly scalloped rim edged in blue, and the grooved handle with a scroll thumbpiece, unmarked.
Condition: Good, but the underglaze-blue dark and somewhat runny. Auction tag for Sotheby's [London?] Lot 196/2. Cream jugs and butter boats were made widely in many different variations, probably at every porcelain factory in eighteenth-century Britain. These sauceboats may well have been intended for melted butter to pour over asparagus.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location); Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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