Lot Essay
Two outstanding baskets in the Peabody Museum, Salem, are discussed by Carl L. Crossman, op. cit., p.298. The larger, which he identifies as a "tiffin basket" (i.e. for carrying food) has a plain oval escutcheon left blank on the front for a coat-of-arms or monogram. The smaller basket in Salem has its own original box, with the label for "Hangsing, New China Stree no. 1". Another from the collection of the Ryerss Museum, Fairmont Park Commission, Philadelphia, was exhibited, Philadelphians and the China Trade 1784-1844, Catalogue, no.115