A lovely Samuel Alcock fruit basket finely painted with garden flowers. c.1830

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A lovely Samuel Alcock fruit basket finely painted with garden flowers. c.1830Description. Beautifully painted, with finally executed floral bouquets on a blue ground. Elaborate gilding. Rococo style handle Condition. Minor scratching and discolouration of the blue ground. Otherwise, no cracks, chips or restoration. Dimensions. This is a large example. 26 cm wide. Please see our other items, arranged by category in our shop. We generally have several hundred items listed on eBay. We have many other items listed elsewhere. If

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The teabowl shape is illustrated as item number 42 to the appendix to Twitchett

Pattern number 1444 (though Pat Preller states that the blue rim means the piece is pattern 1442)

Floral sprigs connected by thin "gilded" stems

Sticker denoting this example as being item 50 of the Geoffrey Sell collection

Faux Meissen crossed sword marks to the reverse

as to the Giles attribution is the mock-Meissen mark to the base of the piece

Two tiny rim nicks and a tiny rim hairline

Invisible to the eye and no flaring under UV

the piece is in astonishingly good antique condition

Pattern number 80

Decorated in underglaze blue