A STRASBOURG FAIENCE PIERCED TWO-HANDLED FLORAL WICKERWORK BASKET, 'à marli ajouré' painted in colours, with fleurs fines, the outside applied with small beet-red flowers, the spirally moulded handle green, the shaped edge olive-green, with rope footrim (hairline crack), marked in blue H with dot above H870 and in olive green with 90 for Joseph Hannong, ca. 1775

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A STRASBOURG FAIENCE PIERCED TWO-HANDLED FLORAL WICKERWORK BASKET, 'à marli ajouré' painted in colours, with fleurs fines, the outside applied with small beet-red flowers, the spirally moulded handle green, the shaped edge olive-green, with rope footrim (hairline crack), marked in blue H with dot above H870 and in olive green with 90 for Joseph Hannong, ca. 1775
25 cm wide

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C.f L. Ade Boger, the dictionary of world pottery and porcelain, ill. 282 for a similar example

S. de Plas, les faïences de Strasbourg et de l'Est de la France, p. 40 for a 'à marli ajouré' dish

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