Description:
Chinese export porcelain shallow, circular basket with a solid center impressed with a basket weave pattern decorated in blue and gilding. The openwork sides are formed of forty curved vertical uprights bound at the midpoint by interlaced ropework; the solid rim is lashed to the sides with a border of ropework. The center of the basket is painted with blue and gilt floral spray and the blue dotted border; the midband has traces of gilding; the rim is painted with blue and gilding. This basket is a rare Chinese copy of the so-called "Twig" baskets made of refined earthenware in Staffordshire and Yorkshire, England in the 1780s and 1790s at Wedgwood, Leeds, and many other potteries. It lacks the stand or undertray which generally accompanies this form.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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