Sauceboat

Object Name:

Sauceboat

Object ID:

1914.014.028 a-b

Creator:

Clews, James; Clews, Ralph; Westall, Richard

Place of Origin:

Cobridge, Staffordshire, England

Date:

1819-1834

Description:

Tureen with cover. Blue transfer printed earthenware; pearlware. Oval tureen with slightly undulating sides, narrowing above outward curving foot. Rim flares slightly outward and is higher at ends than at sides. Molded, undulating line surrounds body below rim and above edge of foot. High, downward curving handles at either end with molded fruit and foliage ornament on upper surfaces. Oval cover with scalloped outline and broken ogee profile; edge overhanging body; clustered fruit finial. Notch at one end of cover for ladle. Underglaze, transfer-printed design in deep blue.
Scene, obverse and reverse, on tureen, shows two men, one lying on ground and one seated. On cover, undulating beaded line separating floral motifs on relatively light stippled ground from alternating birds and urns of flowers on plan dark background. Simplified version of this design on foot. Narrow decorative bands at inner and outer edges of rim and around edges of foot and cover. Printed or painted figure "6" on bottom of tureen.
Finial broken off but repaired. One chip on edge of cover, two on foot, and one on underside of handle.

Material:

Ceramic
Earthenware - Pearlware

Dimensions:

H-6.5 W-6 D-4.5 inches

Provenance:

Ceramics collected by Martha E. Durgin (1833-1916) of Concord, NH. She began collecting in the late 1880s and donated the collection to the Society in 1914.

Credit Line:

Gift of Martha E. Durgin

People:

Durgin, Martha E. (1833-1916), Clews, James, Clews, Ralph