Lot 76
76
A BOW LARGE PIERCED CIRCULAR BASKET, the centre painted with a leafy branch bearing two mottled and streaked Old English apples, the pierced sides with scattered flower-sprays beneath a border of yellow and pink flowers among foliage, with a waved brown line rim, the exterior with scattered flowers (slight crack to base, small crack to footrim), circa 1760

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A BOW LARGE PIERCED CIRCULAR BASKET, the centre painted with a leafy branch bearing two mottled and streaked Old English apples, the pierced sides with scattered flower-sprays beneath a border of yellow and pink flowers among foliage, with a waved brown line rim, the exterior with scattered flowers (slight crack to base, small crack to footrim), circa 1760
30cm. diam.
Provenance
Rous Lench Collection, sale Christie's, 30 May 1990, lot 374

Lot Essay

See Yvonne Hackenbroch, op. cit., for the 'John and Elizabeth Roberts' bowl dated 1761 also Anton Gabszewicz and Geoffrey Freeman, op. cit., no. 154 for a bowl inscribed 'Mr. John Chapman 1762' almost certainly by the same hand

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