Strasbourg Faience Sauce Boat

This is a superb faience / majolica sauce boat dish made by Hannong of Strassburg (aka Strasbourg ) in France in the 18th century. It has a nice shape to it and is hand painted with a superb flower arrangement in the center of the inside as well as lots of smaller single flowers scattered around. The twisted branch handles are quite interesting and the outside spouts have a colorful design in blue yellow and puce. These types of dishes are very hard to find since faience is even more fragile than porcelain . The dish is in decent condition with lots of glaze flakes and chips along the edges most of which are small and shallow. There is a large chip to the foot as shown and lots of nibbling all around. Some glaze lines all around which is a common issue on these early pieces. These are not cracks just in the glaze! One of these looks like a glaze crack but is in fact a hairline crack to the side of the spout. It still displays nicely and is not something one can find easily. Worth adding to the collection as is or getting restored back to perfection. The sauce dish is 3.5 inches tall including the handles, 8.125 inches long and 6.5 inches wide including the handles. It is marked underneath with the H with a dot above it and the number 483 with a line below as shown. Please email me for more information or other pictures.