Decorated in soft blush-pink transferware with delicate birds and naturalistic foliage, on a warm ivory ground. This lidded sauce boat is so beautiful. It embodies the romance of the Aesthetic Movement whether you use it as a sauce boat, for display or to hold blooms.
 
 
A beautiful example of late Victorian transferware with the graceful bird motifs and scalloped shape
 
It was made by Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co., Staffordshire, in the beloved Canova pattern between 1870 and 1890. But interestingly, it is stamped with the French Déposé mark, indicating it was imported to Paris, probably for the Grand Depot.
 
The sauce boat is in good antique condition with only a crack in the top glaze on the saucer on one end, which does not go through to the other side, a tiny chip on the side of the top handle and on the inside of the lid underneath where if can't be seen easily.  Indicated with arrows
 
It stands tall and the attached plate measures 9"long and 6" wide