Ex-Bowes Museum Davenport enamelled creamware basket and cover. c.1805

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Ex-Bowes Museum Davenport enamelled creamware basket and cover. c.1805Description. A fine Davenport reticulated basket, painted with enamel border decoration of black lines and dots, including a yellow band painted with a black leaf motif. Pattern number 177. See a plate painted in identical style in "Davenport Pottery and Porcelain 1794 1887 by Terence Lockett. Having spoken with the Bowes Museum, the succession note on the base of the piece is spurious. Unmarked. Condition. In excellent antique condition. No apparent

seller added the following information:

beautifully painted with loose bouquets

with a magnificent botanical study of "Polyanthus"

No other evident restoration

" This press-moulded

which is visible only on very close inspection and has not led to any discolouration of the piece

A rare and most impressive (11" from handle to spout) mid-Georgian sprigged redware punch pot of large dimensions

Flight mark to the base of the piece

A delightful miniature suacer-probably from a child's set

given that the relatively undecorated form did not mean that they were prized as items of beauty

11cm in height

Bevans and Irwin Mark