Basket and Cover
ca. 1760-65 (made)
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Dessert basket, or cream basin, and cover of soft-paste porcelain, moulded with basketwork and pierced, and painted in underglaze blue; decorated with applied sprays of flowers and foliage
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain, moulded and pierced, and painted in underglaze blue |
| Brief description | Basket and cover of soft-paste porcelain, moulded with basketwork and pierced, and painted in underglaze blue, Derby porcelain factory, Derby, ca. 1760-65 |
| Physical description | Dessert basket, or cream basin, and cover of soft-paste porcelain, moulded with basketwork and pierced, and painted in underglaze blue; decorated with applied sprays of flowers and foliage |
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| Credit line | Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber |
| Object history | Purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Rainey [?], Bath, for £2 in December 1866. Acquired as Bow porcelain. |
| Historical context | Such covered bowls moulded with basketwork and with pierced covers are often known today as 'chestnut baskets', but this term probably dates from the 19th century. Those made at the Worcester porcelain factory have been indentified with the pierced 'cream bason's with covers and plates in the factory's price list of 1769. Both the bowls and covers of the baskets made at Sèvres for serving chestnuts were pierced. |
| Production | For another bowl and cover of the same form, enamelled in colours see Sch. I 374. Another identical blue-and-white example, but dated 1762, is at Derby Museum and Art Gallery |
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| Bibliographic reference | Bemrose, William. Longton Hall Porcelain. pl.XLVI. |
| Other number | Sch. I 288&A - Schreiber number |
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| Accession number | 414:49/&A-1885 |
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| Record created | August 14, 2008 |
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