An unusual Worcester small oval basket

An unusual Worcester small pierced oval basket, the twig loop handles with applied flower and leaf terminals, painted in coloured enamels in the London atelier of James Giles with a spray of flowers and leaves, including a 'divergent' tulip, within a gilt flower, leaf scroll and trellis cartouche, on a blue scale ground, the border painted in coloured enamels with flowers and leaves, beneath a blue ground band with gilt leaf scrolls, 7" wide, circa 1770, blue fret mark
Provenance;From a dessert service commissioned by Lord Craven, of Benham Park, Near Newbury, Berkshire 
                     Barbara Leake Collection
                     With Robyn Robb
Exhibited: Albert Amor, Golden Age Exhibition, 1980, number 87
                 Dreweatt Neate, Dyson Perrins Museum Loan Exhibition, 1995, number 107

See Gerald Coke, In Search of James Giles, page 208, figure 36(a), for a plate from this service. A further basket is in the Gardner Museum, Toronto 

 

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