English Delftware Blue & White Sauce Boat, 
London,
Circa 1790

The English blue and white delftware silver-form sauce boat, with long curved spout and a crabstock handle, is decorated with a Chinoiserie design of buildings and landscapes has a rococo shape with a shell-edge interior border.  The interior with a flower sprig.

John Austin (see below) wrote about the smaller example at Williamsburg that the shape comes in two sizes. One large size lik this example are unusually painted with a European landscape and a smaller size with a chinoiserie design like this one.  The attribution to London was made on the basis of the color of the blue and a similar example is illustrated in London Delftware by Frank Britton

Dimensions: 4 3/4 inches high x 8 1/2 inches wide x 3 1/2 inches deep (12.07cm high x 21.59cm wide x 8.89cm deep).

Provenance: Property from a Philadelphia Collection;
Jonathan Horne Antiques,  with paper label Jonathan Horne Antiques, Kensington, London, October 4, 1982. 
old paper label for LLL Collection #704.

The sauce boat with typical chips to rim and crazing lines.

Reference: British Delft at Williamsburg, John Austin, Page 194, # 284 for a smaller example.

London Delfware, Frank Britton, Page 166, #166.

(Ref: NY10788-umrx)