A fine and early Bow porcelain famille rose reticulated basket c.1752

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A fine and early Bow porcelain famille rose reticulated basket c.1752Description. Painted with the famille rose type decoration, used by Bow in its earlier years, that decoration consisting of chrysanthemums, bamboo, holey rocks, and insects. The pattern is supplemented by gilded detailing. The piece is of circular shape, with broadly oval and triangular reticulations. The exterior of the basket includes painted stylised florets and insects. The piece has no maker's mark, but does have a painter's mark 47. We are not

foot and floral decoration

In super condition

although that claim is sometimes somewhat difficult to accept

Impressed "Nant-garw CW" mark

Castleford

A chip to the rim and a long glued crack

One of the applied flowers has been broken

Blue painted mark

This particular piece is decorated somewhat more elaborately than the example pictured in Bradshaw (p66

to the body of the stick

base and to the initialled reverse of the painted scene

10 cm in height