A PAIR OF MEISSEN (OUTSIDE DECORATED) SHAPED OVAL PIERCED BASKETS with branch-moulded handles extending to form four feet, the diaper-pattern sides applied with flowering twigs and moulded with scroll cartouches painted with birds in shrubby landscape vignettes, the borders and pierced details enriched in gilding (feet and flowers chipped, each with restoration to one handle and associated areas and cracks to feet, repair to one foot), cancelled blue crossed swords and star marks, the decoration late 19th Century