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English ceramics factories often copied sauce boats from silver ones. Early sauceboats were open boat-shaped vessels with one or two pouring lips, but late-18th-century ones were often tureen-shaped with a central foot. Either type could require an underdish to prevent spillage.<br><br><b>Use</b><br>The five main sauces introduced by the French were <i>b‚chamel</i>, <i>brune/espagnol</i>, <i>tomate</i>, <i>mayonnaise</i> and <i>velout‚</i>. Gravies made from roasted meat flavoured with wine, citrus juice, capers, herbs and spices were also popular in 18th-century Britain. Other sauces had a 'roux' base, made by combining butter or lard with flour and broth or milk, and flavoured with parsley, onions, celery, anchovies, oysters, cockles or eggs. Butter sauces, served in smaller sauce boats or butter boats, frequently accompanied vegetables. A hot sauce of wine, butter and sugar was the most common one for puddings.<br><br><b>Trading</b><br>Sauceboats of this general type are included in a wholesale price list of the London warehouse of the Worcester factory. Blue and white 'Sauceboats, high footed' were sold at 14, 18 and 27 shillings a dozen, according to size. This sauce boat is painted in enamels (a more expensive and laborious technique), and would have cost more.","physicalDescription":"Sauce boat of soft-paste porcelain, moulded and painted with enamels. Wavy edge. Sides and spreading foot moulded in relief with festoons of flowers and ribbons. Scroll handle. 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The factory was taken over by Worcester in 1752. This sauce boat may have been made at Bristol and decorated at Worcester, or made at Worcester using Bristol's moulds.","date":{"text":"27/03/2003","earliest":"2003-03-27","latest":"2003-03-27"}}],"partNumbers":["C.1297-1924"],"accessionNumberNum":"1297","accessionNumberPrefix":"C","accessionYear":1924,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LR0516","2019LP4346","2019LU0949"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-24","recordCreationDate":"2002-12-03","availableToBook":false}}