Lot 441
441
A PAIR OF WORCESTER PALE YELLOW-GROUND RETICULATED TWO-HANDLED BASKETS
A PAIR OF WORCESTER PALE YELLOW-GROUND RETICULATED TWO-HANDLED BASKETS

CIRCA 1768

Details
A PAIR OF WORCESTER PALE YELLOW-GROUND RETICULATED TWO-HANDLED BASKETS
Circa 1768
Each with slightly everted pierced sides, the branch handles secured with encrusted flower terminals, the interior finely painted on the bottom with a loose bouquet and along the scalloped rim with similar flowers, the pale yellow exterior with green-centered pink flowerheads at the intersections of the basket staves, gilt line rim
8in. (21.6cm.) wide overall (2)

Lot Essay

Although the terminal flowers vary slightly, the present baskets should be considered a pair as all other decoration is virtually identical and by the same hand.

Cf. Simon Spero, The Bowles Collection of 18th-Century English and French Porcelain, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, 1995, no. 108 for a similar single basket