Lot Essay
Cf. Robin Reilly, Wedgwood, Vol. I, p. 374, fig. 496
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A WEDGWOOD CREAMWARE OVAL BASKET AND PIERCED COVER
Circa 1780
The flared basketweave-moulded bowl on a spreading foot and with two branch-moulded handles, the slightly domed pierced cover with a central oval aperture, both with ropetwist borders (the cover with chip and hairline cracks, minute chip to rim of base), impressed mark and incised K to base
10in. (25.4cm.) wide
Circa 1780
The flared basketweave-moulded bowl on a spreading foot and with two branch-moulded handles, the slightly domed pierced cover with a central oval aperture, both with ropetwist borders (the cover with chip and hairline cracks, minute chip to rim of base), impressed mark and incised K to base
10in. (25.4cm.) wide