Description:
English porcelain (bone china) basket in Rococo Revival style manufactured by the Upper Hanley China Works. The well has a hand-painted copy (painter unknown) of William Henry Bartlett's (1809-1854) image of "Mount Tom and the Connecticut River. America" and "2/222" is identified in overglaze red enamel hand-lettering on the underside of the base; the image is in a shaped reserve outlined in gilt. The scene is copied from a print dated 1839 with the same title that also appeared in Volume 11 of "American Scenery" (London: George Virtue, 1840) by Nathaniel Parker Willis, which is illustrated with engravings made from Bartlett's drawings from his four visits to the United States between 1836 and 1852. It depicts the Connecticut River with a wide section of bank in the foreground with people standing at the river's edge; two boats in the river; and on the opposite bank, the several peaks of Mount Tom. The plate was manufactured by the Upper Hanley China Works which was run by two different partnerships, from 1835 to 1840 the factory was operated by William Ridgway and Ralph Meyer Robey until their partnership ended in 1840; then William Ridgway operated the pottery under the title of "W. Ridgway & Son" until the contents were sold in 1848. The basket has an oblong-modified octagonal-shape (the so-called "Milan" shape) and feather decoration heightened with gilt on the center handle and rim. The area between the rim and the well is a pale turquoise blue/green color. For print source, see HD 77.089.
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