PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR. AND MRS. ALEXANDER SAUNDERSON

A PAIR OF WORCESTER (BARR, FLIGHT & BARR) RETICULATED CRESTED GILT-VERMICULE SALMON-GROUND BASKETS AND STANDS

CIRCA 1813, BROWN PRINTED AND IMPRESSED CROWNED BFB MONOGRAM MARKS, OTHER INCISED MARKS

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A PAIR OF WORCESTER (BARR, FLIGHT & BARR) RETICULATED CRESTED GILT-VERMICULE SALMON-GROUND BASKETS AND STANDS
Circa 1813, brown printed and impressed crowned BFB monogram marks, other incised marks
The center of each with the crest of a bear's gamb issuing from a red restiped baton and holding a tilting spear reserved within a gilt medallion encircled by concentric bands of gilt vermiculé on a salmon-ground and reserved and gilt anthemia on a gilt striated ground, the wide border pierced and enriched in gilt as woven basket staves, the interior of the pierced baskets also gilt with vermiculé on a salmon-ground
7 1/8 in. (8 cm.) high, 9 in. (22.9 cm.) diameter, the baskets; 10¾ in. (27.3 cm.) diameter, the stands (4)

拍品专文

The crest would appear to be that of Marjoribanks of Lees, County Berwick. Cf. Henry Sandon, Flight and barr Worcester Porcelain 1783-1840, The Antique Collector's Club, 1978, p. 211, no. 9; also David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, London, 1974, p. 786.