Sauceboat

Staffordshire

About 1760

  • Titles Sauceboat (Descriptive)
  • Artist Staffordshire, England
  • Medium salt-glazed stoneware
  • Dimensions 2 3/4 × 7 1/2 × 3 3/4 in. (7 × 19.1 × 9.5 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Catherine H. Collins Collection, AFI.142.1998
  • Work Type sauceboat
  • Classification Containers

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