sauce boat
Summary
Rounded oval sauce boat tapering to flat base, with tall prominent lip and applied strap loop handle with slight rolled spur at lower terminal. Two-part press-moulded body with relief-moulded decoration on each side of flambuoyant Rococo scrolls separating panels of trellis and basketwork ground. Pecten shell motif beneath lip. Greyish-white body.
Object Name
sauce boat
Date Created
c 1750=1770
accession number
1923.500
Collection Group
Place of creation
Staffordshire
Medium
Credit
Bequeathed by Thomas Tylston Greg
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