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Accession Number: 
2009.7.2
Object type: 
jug
Sauce boat
Sauceboat: Accession No. 2009.7.2
Sauceboat: Accession No. 2009.7.2

This sauce boat is almost certainly West Pans and made by the William Littler pottery.

The sauce boat is moulded with a "tiger lily and bow" design. The design known as Tiger Lilies and Bow, is found on  different porcelain forms produced by Littler both at West Pans and at Longton Hall. This one can be attributed to West Pans because of the firing marks that appear on it.

William Littler's first pottery was at Longton Hall in Staffordshire. Littler later moved to West Pans. The village of West Pans lies 1 1/4 miles east north east of Musselburgh, on the south side of the Firth of Forth. Littler was working in West Pans in the 1760s. William Littler, was considered the pioneer potter of West Pans during this period.

Description

Accession Number: 
2009.7.2
Object type: 
jug

Description

Small sauceboat with "tiger lily and bow" moulding and a simple 'C' scroll handle. The reserves are painted underglaze with what  looks like a strange stockade/landscape in colbalt blue flanked by elongated blue flowers. Thinly moulded black spots on interior form kiln, and firing cracks to base. A sauce boat with a similar handle but blurred painting of the same view, was illustrated by Holdaway (1998, 28 Fig 11). Watney also illustrates a sauce boat with similar moulding, a much more sophisticated handle, and a variation of the same scene, (1957, 23a). Almost certainly West Pans.

Material: 
ceramic
Material: 
porcelain
Number of objects: 
1
Height (cm): 
5.00
Width (cm): 
14.20
Date - earliest/single: 
01/01/1760 (All day)

Date - latest

01/01/1785
Date text: 
18th century
Date - earliest/single certainty: 
circa

Date - latest certainty

circa

Associated

Accession Number: 
2009.7.2
Object type: 
jug
Legacy - Object production people: 
William Littler
Object production place: 
Associated activity: 
pottery
Associated date: 
01/01/1759 - 01/01/1785
Associated date text: 
18th Century
Associated date certainty: 
circa
Legacy - Associated person: 
William Littler
Associated place: 
West Pans

Media

Accession Number: 
2009.7.2
Object type: 
jug
Object has been photographed/scanned: 
No
Sauceboat: Accession No. 2009.7.2
Sauceboat: Accession No. 2009.7.2
Image on SCRAN: 
No