Sauce-boat
Sauce-boat, cream-coloured earthenware with clear glaze, standing on a shallow, slightly splayed foot, oval shaped bulbous body with flaring lip, loop handle running from rim to lower body; the body decorated with evenly-spaced stylised clover leaves hand-painted overglaze in black and green enamels surrounded by free-form dots and loops, between these are groups of four or five short parallel, horizontal brushstroke lines, hand-painted overglaze in black, around the rim is a transfer-printed band of interlaced 'S' shapes forming a schematic rope pattern, the handle with reeding and a scalloped terminal.
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