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Lot 219
A fine early Lowestoft basket circa 1758-60
14 April 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £8,640 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA fine early Lowestoft basket
circa 1758-60
Thinly potted and of circular form, the everted sides pierced with interlocking circles, the inside painted in blue with a Chinese river scene, a fisherman standing on a promontory, a large willow tree and a small hut behind him, a twin-gabled building visible on a distant island and a small boat out on the water, a simple border below the interior rim, 13.8cm diam, indistinct painter's numeral inside footrim (two fine cracks in basketwork)
Thinly potted and of circular form, the everted sides pierced with interlocking circles, the inside painted in blue with a Chinese river scene, a fisherman standing on a promontory, a large willow tree and a small hut behind him, a twin-gabled building visible on a distant island and a small boat out on the water, a simple border below the interior rim, 13.8cm diam, indistinct painter's numeral inside footrim (two fine cracks in basketwork)
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A very similar basket is illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, Lowestoft Porcelains (1985), pl 43, p 59. This is the earliest type of Lowestoft basket, thrown and pierced by hand as opposed to the later moulded examples. Such baskets are recorded in three sizes although fragments found on the factory site suggest that a fourth and larger size was also made. It would appear that no further baskets were made at Lowestoft until the oval examples, made in Worcester style and first appearing in the 1770s
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