Sauce Boat and Stand

Wedgwood

About 1800

  • Titles Sauce Boat and Stand (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium lead-glazed earthenware (creamware)
  • Dimensions sauce boat: 3 7/8 x 7 3/4 x 3 1/2 in. (9.8 x 19.7 x 8.9 cm) stand: 13/16 x 7 1/4 x 6 in. (2.1 x 18.4 x 15.2 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; The Buten Wedgwood Collection, gift through the Wedgwood Society of New York, AFI.835.2011a-b
  • Work Type sauce boat and stand
  • Classification Containers

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Round dinner plate of bone china with a heavily gilt feather edge with a border of vertical repeating motifs, with two gilt feather-edged scrolling bands with stippled interiors that intersect to form six reserves, within which are small sprays of pink and blue flowers and green leaves, on the inside along the inner band at each of six indentations are small pink roses.
Square plaque of solid white jasper with partial black jasper inlay and applied white jasper relief decoration, self-framed in white with a smaller black square in the center, featuring the applied white jasper scene of two cupids with a lion, the cupid in front carrying a dish and holding the lion on a chain, the cupid behind reaching out to a bird in flight, with a tree in the background.
Large, slightly irregularly shaped, round bowl of reddish earthenware covered with a gray-beige glaze that is unevenly applied and contains numerous glaze flaws, the upper outer and inner rims with a band of blue glaze that flows slightly creating a feather-like edge and is partially covered by a white glaze that drips downward, the edge of the rim and foot left glaze free , the body contains on one side a decorative motif consisting of a triangle with five bluish dots surrounded by white bits of glaze.
Bust three-quarters front.