Pair of Sauceboats with Covers

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Description

Boat-shaped on spreading bases with fluted swept handles and removable domed covers with vase-shaped finials, decorated with bright-cut bands of zigzag and scrolling ribbon within applied reeded borders, engraved on one side with a coat-of-arms against later-added foliage, the covers with a crest, engraved under the bases with scratch weights 15=19 and 15=18

Dimensions

13.6 x 21.6 x 9.8 cm (5 3/8 x 8 1/2 x 3 7/8 in.) unspecified: 982 g

Provenance

Edwin Hale Abbot Jr., Cambridge, MA, Bequest to Fogg Museum, 1966.