A rare Longton Hall pierced basket

A rare Longton Hall basket, painted in coloured enamels with three exotic birds in a river landscape, with buildings beyond, the border pierced and moulded with overlapping oak leaves, and painted in 'Trembly Rose' Painter style with flower sprays, 7 3/4" diameter, circa 1755, no mark

Provenance; With Simon Spero 
                      Paul and Bunny Davies Collection
                      English Private Collection
Exhibited; Dreweatt Neate, 18th Century English Porcelain Loan Exhibition, 1996, number 36
                international Ceramics Fair and Seminar, Loan Exhibition, 1999, number 25

Previously on loan to Stoke on Trent Museum 
        

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