Sauce boat

ca. 1750-52

Unknown artist

English

Soft paste porcelain

Overall h.: 5 1/2 in.

Diam.: 5 1/8 in.

L.: 7 5/8 in.

Gift of Martha and Henry Isaacson

61.110

Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Porcelain Stories: From China to Europe", February 17, 2000 - May 7, 2000 (2/17/2000 - 5/7/2000)

Published ReferencesTilley, Frank. "Ceramic 'Tops' and Tales: Fresh Fields for the Researcher" in Antique Collector (April 1961), pp. 56-57, fig. 7

Collins, Jeffrey, review. "Porcelain Stories: From China to Europe," in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 34, No. 1, Poetry and Poetics (Fall 2000), Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 116-120, p. 119

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