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Pair of sauce boats
1743-1744
- Medium
- silver
- Measurements
- (a) 18.2 × 20.5 × 10.2 cm
(b) 17.6 × 20.1 × 10.1 cm - Place/s of Execution
- London, England
- Inscription
- (a-b) punched in base (inverted) c.: (crowned leopard's head) h
punched in base (diagonally) c.: (lion passant) / H - Accession Number
- 3563.a-b-D3
- Department
- International Decorative Arts
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1934
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- 18th Century Decorative Arts & Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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These extraordinary sauce boats with dragons forming the handles represent the height of Rococo fantasy in mid eighteenth-century England. Dragons emerged as a fashionable motif among the fantastic nature of Rococo imagery, with interest in exotic, mythical creatures reflecting the taste for Chinoiserie. Asymmetric Rococo scrolling forms adorn every part of these sauceboats, whose helmet forms are otherwise entirely Classical in inspiration.
- Physical description
- George II helmet sauce boat, masks under lip, Griffin handles, probably by Henry Herbert.
