Sauce tureen
Chelsea Porcelain Factory (1744-1769)
Category
Ceramics
Date
1755 - 1758
Materials
Porcelain
Measurements
45 x 282 x 250 mm
Place of origin
Chelsea
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Erddig, Wrexham
NT 1145582.1
Summary
Sauce tureen base. Part of one of a pair of Chelsea porcelain sauce tureens, covers and stands, modelled as plaice, the raised tails forming handles, and painted with scale markings in purple, brown and iron red, the open mouths for ladles (no longer extant), the backs (lids) with seaweed handles; the stands moulded and shells etc. Red anchor period, c.1755-8.
Provenance
Given by Philip Yorke III (1905-1978) along with the estate, house and contents to the National Trust in 1973.
Makers and roles
Chelsea Porcelain Factory (1744-1769), potters