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Lot 28

An important London delftware basket, circa 1735-40

13 April 2016, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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An important London delftware basket, circa 1735-40

Attributed to Vauxhall, circular with the sides elaborately pierced with tulip motifs and applied with four heavy rope-twist handles, the centre painted in blue with two deer, a rabbit and birds in a stylised Chinese landscape, the border painted with tiny sprigs and stars, the exterior sponged in blue, raised on three bun feet, 27cm across the handles (section of rim restuck and a fine crack)

Footnotes

In his paper to the ECC in 1988, Vol 13, pt.2, pls.82-83, Dennis Cockell showed two closely related baskets of the same distinctive shape, one with the same central subject as the present lot and one with the same painted border. Cockell related these to shards he had found at Vauxhall Cross. The example illustrated with deer featured a powdered manganese ground. Another basket of the same shape with a manganese ground was sold by Phillips 29 November 1989, lot 234.

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