Staffordshire 19th-Century Covered Sauce or Gravy Tureen With Underplate

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On offer is a 19th-century black transferware sauce or gravy tureen, complete with its original matching lid and underplate. This … Read more On offer is a 19th-century black transferware sauce or gravy tureen, complete with its original matching lid and underplate. This set was made in Staffordshire, England, the global hub of earthenware production during the 1800s.
The central transfer-printed vignette features a Romantic-style landscape typical of the mid-19th century. It depicts figures in a small boat or punting boat navigating a river or lake, with a stone bridge or aqueduct stretching across the background. The horizon is framed by mountains under a stylized, radiating rising sun.
The body, lid, and platter are embellished with matching neo-classical geometric scroll borders and leaf motifs near the handles. There is even a hole in the lid for your silver sauce ladle.
These miniature versions of full-sized soup tureens were popular fixtures of elaborate Victorian dinner services.
The crispness of the transfer print, the shape of the pedestal foot, the molded handles, and the distinctive "rising sun" graphic style place its production between 1830 and 1860.
While blue was the most common color for transferware, black monochrome prints (often called black transferware) were highly prized for their engraving-like detail and graphic contrast. This one awaits your treasured recipe for orange cranberry sauce.
Signature/Maker’s mark: Nonexistent. Plate dimensions: 8.5”w x 7.75”d x 1.25”h; covered bowl dimensions: 7.5”w x 7”d x 6”h See less