A PAIR OF HIGHLY IMPORTANT GEORGE II TWO-HANDLED CIRCULAR BREAD BASKETS, in the Charles I style, each on pierced spreading foot with applied rope-twist band above, the bases pierced with radiating geometric motifs, the tapering sides with scalework and applied below the moulded rim with leaf-capped reeded scroll bracket handles, the sides engraved with stylised rosettes and a coat-of-arms within a Rococo cartouche and circular surround, by Paul de Lamerie, 1734

A PAIR OF HIGHLY IMPORTANT GEORGE II TWO-HANDLED CIRCULAR BREAD BASKETS, in the Charles I style, each on pierced spreading foot with applied rope-twist band above, the bases pierced with radiating geometric motifs, the tapering sides with scalework and applied below the moulded rim with leaf-capped reeded scroll bracket handles, the sides engraved with stylised rosettes and a coat-of-arms within a Rococo cartouche and circular surround, by Paul de Lamerie, 1734
12½in. (32cm.) wide
5¼in. (13.5cm.) high
(81ozs.)

The arms are those of Guise with those of Saunders in pretence, for Sir John Guise, of Elmore, co. Gloucester who succeeded his father as 4th Baronet on 16th November 1732. He married, in 1731, only daughter and heiress of John Saunders of Mongewell, co. Oxfordshire (2)