Worcester Porcelain Blue-Scale Reticulated Quatrefoil Chestnut Basket, Cover and Stand
Circa 1768, blue pseudo-Chinese seal mark to stand
Of lobed form, the applied crab stock branch handles and finials with leafy flower terminals, the exteriors with yellow-centered puce flowerheads within hexagonal cartouches and radiating pierced lappets, the interior painted with polychrome flowers sprays within tooled gilt rocaille-scrollwork surrounds, the cover, stand and footrim with pale-yellow banding.
Height overall 5 5/8 inches, width overall of stand 10 1/2 inches.

For a similar example from the Zorensky Collection, see Bonham's, London, Part III, 22 February 2006, lot 135. This example also illustrated by Simon Spero and John Sandon in The Zorensky Collection Catalogue, p. 230, fig 268. The combination of blue-scale grounds with yellow borders is unusual and produces a striking effect. The form traditionally known as a chestnut basket, may also have been referred to as a 'cream bason'. See the 1769 sale of Worcester porcelain which included 'Two fine oval white and gold cream-basons, pierced covers and plates', then realizing the large sum of 15s 6d.

C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell

Chips and losses to flowers. Both basket handles reattached at terminals.

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