Sauceboat

China

Qing dynasty (1644-1912), Qianlong period (1736-1795), About 1755

This service was probably made for William Fenton of St. Christopher’s in the Leeward Islands or, perhaps, for his daughter Jane who married John Roberts of Bonington in 1761, later Chairman of the East India Company, for whom two services are known.

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