Sauceboat

1750-1760

Maker

Bow Porcelain Factory (1747-64)

Measurements

3 3/8 in x 7 in x 3 3/8 in

Materials

Enameled soft-paste porcelain

Credit Line

Historic Odessa Foundation, The David Wilson Mansion, Inc.

Accession Number

1971.1472

Condition Notes

The surface shows some light staining.

Provenance

Mrs. E. Tatnall (Mary Corbit) Warner

Comments

This sauceboat, delicately painted in pink and green enamels with blue and yellow highlights, is an elegant example of English Bow soft-paste porcelain.  It emulated finer Chinese porcelains in the ceramic body and enamel decoration and followed silver styles in the form.  Fashionable English silver prototypes are especially evident in the outline of the rim and in the details of the molded lion’s head and paw feet, probably cast in a mold made directly from a piece of silver.  Although the sauceboat was among the many things gathered by Mrs. Warner, its specific relationship to either the Wilson or Corbit families of the 18th century is unknown.

Bibliography

Zimmerman, A Storied Past, 228.