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Sauceboat — CRC# 1505
- Description
- A Plymouth (William Cookworthy) sauceboat, circa 1768-70. Of fluted or gadrooned form, painted in blue with a version of the 'Plantation' pattern, bamboo and peony growing by rockwork and a fence, a scroll border inside the rim, 20.8cm long, tin or '24' mark
- Service
- Blue/white
- Date
- 1768-70
- Size
- 21.2cm handle to spout, 8.8cm high
- Condition
- Perfect
- Mark
- Blue underglaze tin
- Mark Group
- Tin
- Decorator
- No mark
- Maker
- Cookworthy
- Historic Provenance
- RW Knox Collection. A similar sauceboat was sold by Bonhams on 3 October 2012, lot 124. Another example from the Creed Collection was exhibited by Albert Amor, 2023, cat. no.67, named 'The Bamboo and High Rock' pattern
- Notes
- See Mackenna Cookworthy fig 25. Also Albert Amor. Named in Creed Catalog as Bamboo and High Rock Pattern
- CRC#
- 1505
- Type
- Sauceboat
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Historic illustrations, exhibitions and provenance
H0454 · 1946
Blue/white sauceboat in Stephen Simpson's collection, illustrated in Mackenna's Cookworthy
H0382 · 2023
A "Bamboo and High Rock" sauceboat from the Creed collection sale at Albert Amor
Source: The Creed Collection of Plymouth & Bristol Porcelain (part I)
H0232 · 2026
Bonhams June 2026 auction of Fine Glass and British Ceramics
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