Fruit Basket
ca. 1790 (made)
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Fruit basket and stand of creamware, pierced and painted in enamels. Basket with double-ogee profile and waved rim mounted on a low, spreading foot; on plan roughtly lozenge-shaped, with concave sides. Belwo the rim is a zone of openwork ornamentation in the form of arcading; below this and immediately abaove the foot, a moulded shell border picked out in puce enamel. Scrolled shell handles similarly picked out. On one side, the initials JCF painted in purple against a backgrouund of green leaves picked out in black. Oval stand with similar arcaded openwork, shell borders, and scrolled handles, and with the same initials, similarly painted in the centre.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Creamware, moulded and pierced, and painted in enamels |
| Brief description | Fruit basket and stand, creamware, pierced and painted in enamels, Staffordshire or Yorkshire, ca. 1790 |
| Physical description | Fruit basket and stand of creamware, pierced and painted in enamels. Basket with double-ogee profile and waved rim mounted on a low, spreading foot; on plan roughtly lozenge-shaped, with concave sides. Belwo the rim is a zone of openwork ornamentation in the form of arcading; below this and immediately abaove the foot, a moulded shell border picked out in puce enamel. Scrolled shell handles similarly picked out. On one side, the initials JCF painted in purple against a backgrouund of green leaves picked out in black. Oval stand with similar arcaded openwork, shell borders, and scrolled handles, and with the same initials, similarly painted in the centre. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | "JCF" painted in monogram on both basket and stand |
| Credit line | Given by Mr C.D. Rotch |
| Production | A loosely similar design is shown in the 1796 printed catalogue of the Castleford Pottery, Yorkshire (no. 113) |
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| Accession number | C.72-1957 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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