A creamware ewer and basin, with the body to the ewer and the rim to the basin moulded with reeds and flutes within scroll-moulded rims, the ewer with double-entwined handle (hairline cracks, minor chips and wear), circa 1780-90, probably James and Charles Whitehead of Hanley, the basin -- 12¾in. wide; and a Wedgwood creamware basket of shaped oval outline, wicker-moulded to the exterior, with a twist handle (slight wear), impressed upper case mark, circa 1780 -- 10in. wide | Christie's

Lot 5

A creamware ewer and basin, with the body to the ewer and the rim to the basin moulded with reeds and flutes within scroll-moulded rims, the ewer with double-entwined handle (hairline cracks, minor chips and wear), circa 1780-90, probably James and Charles Whitehead of Hanley, the basin -- 12¾in. wide; and a Wedgwood creamware basket of shaped oval outline, wicker-moulded to the exterior, with a twist handle (slight wear), impressed upper case mark, circa 1780 -- 10in. wide

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A creamware ewer and basin, with the body to the ewer and the rim to the basin moulded with reeds and flutes within scroll-moulded rims, the ewer with double-entwined handle (hairline cracks, minor chips and wear), circa 1780-90, probably James and Charles Whitehead of Hanley, the basin -- 12¾in. wide; and a Wedgwood creamware basket of shaped oval outline, wicker-moulded to the exterior, with a twist handle (slight wear), impressed upper case mark, circa 1780 -- 10in. wide

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Lot Essay

C.f Peter Walton, Creamware and other English Pottery at Temple Newsam House Leeds, p.128 for an attribution of the ewer and basin and pl.492 for an illustration of a similar one

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