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AN ASSEMBLED WORCESTER BLUE-SCALE CHESTNUT-BASKET, COVER AND STAND CIRCA 1770, BLUE SQUARE SEAL MARK TO BASKET AND STAND
Of quatrefoil shape and with twig handles ending in flower terminals, the interior painted in colours with gilt mirror-shaped cartouches of exotic birds, flowers, butterflies and insects reserved on the blue-scale ground, the exterior moulded with cell-pattern enclosing pink flowerheads on a white ground, the cover of yellow ground, the cover and stand pierced (some chips, the stand cracked)-- 9¾in. (25cm.) wide
Of quatrefoil shape and with twig handles ending in flower terminals, the interior painted in colours with gilt mirror-shaped cartouches of exotic birds, flowers, butterflies and insects reserved on the blue-scale ground, the exterior moulded with cell-pattern enclosing pink flowerheads on a white ground, the cover of yellow ground, the cover and stand pierced (some chips, the stand cracked)-- 9¾in. (25cm.) wide