Double-handled sauceboat
Manufacturer
Worcester Porcelain Manufactory
(English, founded 1751)
CultureEnglish
Date1754-1758
MediumSteatitic (soapstone) soft-paste porcelain with overglaze enamels
DimensionsOverall: 8.6 × 18.7 × 15.9 cm (3 3/8 × 7 3/8 × 6 1/4 in.)
MarkingsNone
DescriptionOf silver shape, double-lipped champfered shoulders with two broken ‘C’ scroll handles with thumbrests, press-moulded in relief with shell spouts and scrolling leaf wreathed roundels and swags, transfer-printed in black with the ‘Four Ages of Man’ after an engraving by Louis P. Biotard and interior with swans, details painted in green and deep purple, Kakiemon-style flowers on the shoulders and inside lip
Credit LineGift of William B.G. Humphries
Object numberG23.8.155
Classifications
European CeramicsSub-classification
English PorcelainStatus
Not on view
Artist / Maker: Worcester Porcelain Manufactory
c. 1755
Object number: G23.8.137
Artist / Maker: Worcester Porcelain Manufactory
c.1755-1758
Object number: G99.3.5
Artist / Maker: Worcester Porcelain Manufactory
c.1755-1757
Object number: G99.2.14
Artist / Maker: Meissen Porcelain Manufactory
c.1740-1741; decorated in the nineteenth or twentieth century
Object number: G83.1.942
