First Period Worcester Porcelain Openwork Fruit Baskets, Circa 1770-75

First Period Worcester Porcelain Openwork Fruit Baskets.

First Period Worcester Porcelain Large Pair of Openwork Fruit Baskets with Printed Pine Cone Pattern.

1770-75.

The large reticulated baskets are decorated with the printed underglaze blue Pine Cone pattern in the central well. The rim with a blue cell band (referenced by The Gardiner as delft style 76).

The border with oval and urn-shaped large cutouts. The sides are reticulated with a design of overlapping rings. On the exterior blue florets at each intersection.

These baskets are particularly large.

Marks: One with shaped blue crescent.

Reference: The Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada, Object # G99.3.39 for a slightly smaller example of this shape described as "Large round twig fruit basket". It is mentioned that the form is after a Meissen or Chelsea prototype.

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