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A PAIR OF CHELSEA BASKETS FITTED WITH FLOWERS
THE BASKETS CIRCA 1758, RED ANCHOR MARKS
Each of circular form, the pierced trellis with blue flower-heads at the joins, with iron-red scalloped rim, fitted with a tole-stemmed porcelain and ceramic flowers rising from a naturalistically modelled layer of tole 'soil', applied flowers and leaves are visible along the inner rim of the basket but are for the most part covered by the tole, chips, repairs and losses to the later flowers, restored rim chips, four flower-heads at the rim missing on each
6in. (15.3cm.) diam. (2)
THE BASKETS CIRCA 1758, RED ANCHOR MARKS
Each of circular form, the pierced trellis with blue flower-heads at the joins, with iron-red scalloped rim, fitted with a tole-stemmed porcelain and ceramic flowers rising from a naturalistically modelled layer of tole 'soil', applied flowers and leaves are visible along the inner rim of the basket but are for the most part covered by the tole, chips, repairs and losses to the later flowers, restored rim chips, four flower-heads at the rim missing on each
6in. (15.3cm.) diam. (2)