A Strasbourg faience sauce boat

A Strasbourg faience sauce boat

Modelled as the hull of a wooden boat with a fish figurehead and a sailor standing at the stern holding a bird form tiller, the rudder modelled as a rocaille scroll terminating in a dolphin head. Unmarked. Minor glaze chips. H 15.7, L c. 23.5, W 10.3 cm.
Paul Hannong period, 1748 - 54.

Provenance

Private collection, Westphalia, acquired in 1981 from Fischer-Böhler in Munich.

Literature

A white sauce boat in the Historisches Museum Basel (inv. no. 1948.776, in cat.: Strassburger Keramik, Basel 1986, no. 113).
Another polychrome sauce boat in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (inv. no. 1901.234, in: Rudi, Augenlust und Gaumenfreude, Hamburg 1998, no. 47).