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Sauce boat

Photo: Paul Macapia

Sauce boat

ca. 1755

Painted with the Hynde coat of arms. The elegant molded porcelain shell perched on a base of gentle waves is from a silver shape of the period. Rococo designs for molded and slip-cast porcelain and for cast silver were especially interactive.
Soft paste porcelain
7 1/2 in. (19 cm), length
Gift of Martha and Henry Isaacson
76.201.1
Provenance: 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
location
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
Published ReferencesPanes, Nicholas, "British Porcelain Sauceboats of the 18th Century", illus. pp. 161, 2009

Emerson, Julie, Jennifer Chen, & Mimi Gardner Gates, "Porcelain Stories, From China to Europe", Seattle Art Museum, 2000, pg. 220

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