Details
A pair of Ridgway's pierced two handled fruit baskets and stands
the shaped rectangular baskets pierced with a band of scrolls and moulded with panels of fruiting vines, the handles and stand with similar decoration, painted with bouquets of flowers within dark blue and tan ground gilt with scrolling leaves, pattern numbers 851, circa 1815-25 (some very minor firing faults) -- 24.5cm. wide
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the shaped rectangular baskets pierced with a band of scrolls and moulded with panels of fruiting vines, the handles and stand with similar decoration, painted with bouquets of flowers within dark blue and tan ground gilt with scrolling leaves, pattern numbers 851, circa 1815-25 (some very minor firing faults) -- 24.5cm. wide
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Literature
Geoffrey Godden, Ridway Porcelains, (Woodbridge 1985 2nd ed.) pls. 73 and 74 for similar dessert shapes.