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Sauceboat
Made at: Chelsea Manufactory (England, active 1745–1784)
English
about 1745–49
Object Place: Europe, England
Medium/Technique
Soft-paste porcelain
Dimensions
18.41 cm (7 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Jessie and Sigmund Katz Collection
Accession Number1988.712
CollectionsEurope
DescriptionDouble-handled sauceboat, double-lipped, on quatrefoil foot. Kakiemon decoration of wheat-sheaf, phoenix and tiger patterns, brown lines. Inside "HoHo" bird with flowers and insects. Under the lip at one end is a flowering prunus tree behind a bound fence and chrysanthemums.
Marks
Mark: triangle mark painted in blue enamel on bottom
InscriptionsLabels on underside: "English Ceramic Circle 1948, no. 204"
"Chelsea China Exhibition/Royal Hospital Chelsea/June-July/Festival 1951. Exhibit no. 5"
"Chelsea China Exhibition/Royal Hospital Chelsea/June-July/Festival 1951. Exhibit no. 5"
ProvenanceBy 1931, in the collection of Dr. (1868-1943) and Mrs. Bellamy Gardner. Sold Sotheby's London (June 12, 1941), lot 36. By 1948, possibly Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Gerard Bowlby, London; by 1973, Mr. and Mrs. Sigmund Katz [see note 1]; 1988, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Sigmund Katz. (Accession date: November 30, 1988)
NOTES:
[1] From June 25, 1973, on loan to the MFA from Mr. and Mrs. Sigmund Katz.
NOTES:
[1] From June 25, 1973, on loan to the MFA from Mr. and Mrs. Sigmund Katz.