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Worcester Creamboat
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This item is no longer available
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Dates
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Circa 1765
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Medium
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Porcelain
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Origin
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England
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Description
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A fine Worcester creamboat of shell shaped dolphin ewer form, based on a George II silver shape, and taking its name from the pair of entwined dolphins with tridents moulded below the lip. The handle is moulded as a lamprey eel so it seems likely that these ‘creamboats’ were actually for melted butter.
8cm High
9cm Length
Other factories produced ‘dolphin ewers' but they were never as beautifully moulded as the Worcester ones. This form of creamboat was made at Worcester in two sizes spanning the period 1765-72. It is reported that there were lamprey eels in the River Severn in the eighteenth century.
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Condition
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Tiny nick restored and faint crack to lip of spout
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