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Sauce-boat
Sauce-boat, soft-paste porcelain, yellow-green translucency, thick blue-tinged glaze, bubbling in several areas; silver shape, swelling oval body with broad lip and waved rim, ear-shaped ribbed handle with moulded thumbpiece, three lion mask and paw feet; blurred underglaze painted decoration in a bright royal blue comprising a Chinese river landscape of a willow, house, rocks, trees, birds and an island on each side, a border of lozenges enclosing quatrefoils and seven reserved panels of leaf sprays on the interior of the rim, and a double scroll from the 'eight precious objects' on the inside.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 32276
Acquisition
Gift, 8/2/1994
Given by W. J. Grant-Davidson
Measurements
Height
(cm): 10.2
Length
(cm): 21.7
Width
(cm): 9.5
Height
(in): 4
Length
(in): 8
Width
(in): 3
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
painted
decoration
Applied Art
underglaze blue
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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