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Sauce-boat
Polygonal leaf-form sauceboat, moulded with foliage flowers and tendrils, four leaf-shaped feet, crabstock handle moulded with strawberries, painted in green and pink and decorated with floral sprays in the manner of Meissen Deutcher Blumen,purple rim line. Silver-shaped stand or dish, oval curving fluted rim, moulded shell scroll ends, similarly painted with floral sprays; brown rim. The different rim lines suggest that these may not belong together. However there are numerous sauceboats and plates, silver-shaped, in the 1755 Chelsea catalogue.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 30059
Creation/Production
Chelsea Porcelain Factory
Date: 1752-1756
Acquisition
Transfer, 1921
Measurements
Height
(cm): 10.5
Length
(cm): 16.2
Width
(cm): 10.6
Height
(in): 4
Length
(in): 6
Width
(in): 4
Height
(cm): 2.7
Length
(cm): 21
Width
(cm): 16.5
Height
(in): 1
Length
(in): 8
Width
(in): 6
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
painted
decoration
Applied Art
enamels
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
Location
Gallery 07A North
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