Featured Vintage gravy boat?

Hello thank you for letting me join.

Please can anybody give me info on this very old gravy boat?, the only markings I can see is an 'S' and then opposite another two letters that can't be identified. I suspect it isn't anything really, but thought I'd check it out before it goes in the car boot box!

Thank you for any help.

 

You do know it's in the blue Willow pattern, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_pattern

Debora

 

How big is it please?

looks late eighteenth or very early nineteenth to me. It might not be a gravy boat either. Bourdaloue I’m thinking.

 

We are now thinking an antique Spode sauce bowl?

 

Kind of looks like it says 'No.2', but not a guarantee!​

 

I don’t think Spode, wrong body, it looks too coarse, maybe earthenware.

if you’re on Facebook, there’s an excellent group called the Potty British pottery and porcelain group. They often get identified based on things like that number and letter combo.

 

Welcome Claire.
By bourdaloue Obb doesn't mean the French pear and almond tart, but something more intimate. So the advise is to wait for a more definitive ID before you use it for gravy.

@Ownedbybear , isn't the angular handle a bit awkward for a bourdaloue?

 

Good point, it might be a tad painful!

 

Yes, I see the handle and I think a sauce boat. I also think one of the many Staffordshire factories extant in the mid-1800s. It's a blue willow transfer pattern. No. 2 may be the pattern or perhaps the size as sauce boats came in different sizes.

 

It does look like it could have "No" but I can't tell what is after that!

 

I would date this to mid to late 19th c. Typical Staffordshire utilitarian ware. Doubt you will find maker.