Collection Highlights
Shrewsbury River, New Jersey
1859
S-229
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Sauceboat and tray
Object name
Sauceboat and tray
Date
1870-1890
Medium
Porcelain
Dimensions
Part (Sauceboat): 4 x 8 3/4 x 6 1/4 in. (10.2 x 22.2 x 15.9 cm)
Part (Tray): 1 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (3.8 x 26.7 x 1
Description
Porcelain sauceboat and tray; sauceboat has pouring spout on each end and strap handle on each side; gilded edges; molded rope design near handles; oval foot; interior and exterior of sauceboat hand-painted in polychrome enamels with sea flora and fauna, including fish on interior, and seaweed, shell, and water insect on exterior. Pointed oval undertray with gilded edge; interior painted with seaweed, crab, and shell. Factory mark, decorator's mark, and Latin inscription on underside.
Credit Line
Gift of Ione Sutton, 1995
Object Number
1996.1b-c
Marks
printed: in green on underside of sauceboat and tray: "H & Co."
painted: in red on underside of tray: "CRB"
written: in black enamel on underside of tray: "Ceramium"
Gallery Label
This sauceboat and tray, part of a porcelain fish set, were a wedding present to New Yorker George W. Sutton, Jr. and Bostonian Margaret Bates Shaw, who were married in 1886. Each piece is hand-painted with different varieties of sea flora and fauna. The Suttons lived in Harlem at the corner of Seventh Avenue and 135th Street and moved to New Rochelle by 1899. Their cousin, Effingham Sutton, was responsible for developing Sutton Place about 1875.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
