Sauce boat

ca. 1750-53

English, Chelsea

Soft paste porcelain

2 15/16 x 5 1/8 in. (7.5 x 13 cm)

L.: 22 cm

Gift of Martha and Henry Isaacson

76.212

Provenance: Formerly in the collection of Mr Wallace Elliot; collection of Mr and Mrs Henry and Martha Isaacson, unknown purchase date until 1976; gift from Mr and Mrs Henry and Martha Isaacson to Seattle Art Museum, Washington, 1976

Photo: Paul Macapia

Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Blanc de Chine", February 4, 1988 - June 20, 1988

Published ReferencesPanes, Nicholas, "British Porcelain Sauceboats of the 18th Century", illus. pp. 38, 2009

"Eighteenth Century English Porcelain: A Special Exhibition," Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, April-May 1956, no. 58.

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