COLLECTION OF BLUE AND WHITE TRANSFER PRINTED BASKETS AND DISHES
19TH CENTURY
Estimate: £200 - £300
Auction: Session One - Wednesday 19th February at 10am
Description
comprising a Wooley ‘Ornate Pagoda' basket with pierced leaf details; a Rathbone of Portobello basket in ‘The Font’ pattern; a Davenport ‘Chinoiserie Ruins’ basket; a John Meir ‘Italian Scenery’ basket; a pearlware basket weave basket, late 18th century; a pair of Rogers scallop edged dessert dishes each printed with a mansion within a rural riverside setting; two similar dishes, one by Turner, one by Heathcote, each of shell-shaped form with scroll moulded handles and edges; a heart-shaped Henshall dish with ‘Castle and Bridge’ pattern; a Henshall dish printed with two swans and a mansion; a dish, possibly by Hamilton, printed with ‘Fishermen with Nets’; a small Charles Meigh shaped pickle dish printed with ‘Chinese Gardener’; a Ridgway scalloped ‘Eastern Port’ pickle dish; a pearlware shell-formed pickle dish; a flat, shaped dish, probably Mason's, printed with ‘Pagoda’ pattern; various marks, some unmarked (16)
Dimensions
Italian Scenery basket 31cm wide, Rogers dishes 22cm wide
Provenance
The Maisels Collection of British Ceramics
Footnote
The Meigh ‘Chinese Gardener Pickle dish has a paper label inscribed ’From the Collection of Vernon Roberts Esq, Kincardine Castle'.