Basket
ca. 1770-80 (made)
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Dessert basket of soft-paste porcelain, circular; the sides are pierced in the form of intersecting circles. Painted in the middle with a bunch of flowers within a rococo medallion on a blue scale-pattern ground on which are floral sprays in gold. The openwork sides are painted on the inside with floral sprays in colours; the outside is yellow decorated with applied pink rosettes.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain, painted in colours and gilt, pierced and with applied work |
| Brief description | Dessert basket of soft-paste porcelain, painted in colours and gilt, Worcester porcelain factory, England, ca. 1770-80 |
| Physical description | Dessert basket of soft-paste porcelain, circular; the sides are pierced in the form of intersecting circles. Painted in the middle with a bunch of flowers within a rococo medallion on a blue scale-pattern ground on which are floral sprays in gold. The openwork sides are painted on the inside with floral sprays in colours; the outside is yellow decorated with applied pink rosettes. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | A fretted square, in blue |
| Credit line | Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street |
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| Accession number | 3198-1901 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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