Longton Hall Porcelain Flower Basket Shaped Bowl and Flower-Encrusted Cover
Circa 1756-58, unmarked
Naturalistically modeled as a lobed wicker basket, the cover applied with garden flowers including; a carnation, honeysuckle, anemone, rose and other flowers beneath an arched faux rattan wrapped bail handle.
Height 7 1/2 inches, width 6 1/4 inches.

Provenance:
The William Bemrose Collection.
Sotheby's, London, 29 June 1971, lot 101.

Literature:
William Bemrose, Longton Hall Porcelain, pl. XVIII and illustrated in pl. A in an image "representing a Dining Table as used around 1750".

A variant example was in the Blohm Collection, sold Sotheby's, London, 5 July 1960, lot 116 and illustrated in color by Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as Collected by Otto Blohm, pl. 103

C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell

Handle broken in three and reattached, chips to bocage, one loose blossom available to be reattached, three short hairline cracks to bowl (1 and 2 in. long).

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