A PAIR OF MEISSEN OVAL BASKETS with gilt entwined double-branch handles, the bowls of leaf-moulded form with deeply serrated edges edged in gilding and the veins similarly enriched in gilding on the underside, the lower handles and flanking areas of the rims applied with a profusion of garden flowers, on flared feet moulded with gilt rococo-scrolls and similarly applied with flowers (chips to applied flowers and leaves, slight rim and foot chips), blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummern 83 and 68, incised y 5 a, circa 1900