A PAIR OF THE HAGUE-DECORATED TOURNAI PORCELAIN ORNITHOLOGICAL PIERCED OVAL BASKETS, painted in colours, the twohandled everting sides with interlaced gilt and blue wickerwork motifs (aux filets bleus), the handles twisted (aux anses torsadées) one with a centre depicting a pair of ducks by a pond, the other with partridge-type birds on a platform, both marked with a stork in overglaze blue, one incised 2 the other 2A

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A PAIR OF THE HAGUE-DECORATED TOURNAI PORCELAIN ORNITHOLOGICAL PIERCED OVAL BASKETS, painted in colours, the twohandled everting sides with interlaced gilt and blue wickerwork motifs (aux filets bleus), the handles twisted (aux anses torsadées) one with a centre depicting a pair of ducks by a pond, the other with partridge-type birds on a platform, both marked with a stork in overglaze blue, one incised 2 the other 2A
circa 1780 - 1790
31 cm wide (2)

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cf. Mireille Jottrand, Cent ans de porcelaines de Tournai, le legs André Belley, Musée royal de Mariemont, 1884 p.70 ill.96 for a corbeille of similar shape

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