Sauceboat (One of a Pair)
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1750
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Bow Porcelain Manufactory, English, active ca. 1744 – 1776
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Oval sauce boat supported on oval base. Base domed, modeled in relief with floral garland. Body of boat form molded with relief garlands. Upper rim rises in wave motif at body sides, curving to elongated pouring lip. Exterior body gilded in floral patterns above and beneath molded garlands. Handle in form of serpent/dragon, head rising over sauceboat, with delicately molded scales, teeth, tongue, and ears. Interior of boat with gilded floral spray at bottom, and gilded circle and dot band at inner edge of lip. Body paste creamy white, with minor black imperfections throughout.
place: label: manufactured in
content: England
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase from Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1979-18-1
objectType: label: Type
content: ceramics
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: sauceboat
label: Type
content: sauceboat
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: soft paste porcelain, gold
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 16 × 20 × 10 cm (6 5/16 × 7 7/8 × 3 15/16 in.)