A Worcester yellow ground basket, circa 1765-70,

the sides pierced, the interior with blue scale ground borders, reserved in the base with a large mixed flower spray,  the sides with small sprigs, with twig handles,

The applied white flowers at the base of the handle terminals have some losses to the petals. There is a shallow chip to the inner rim of one of the flowers applied to the exterior at the rim. There are some typical minor firing cracks. There are some very fine light scratches to the blue scale ground inside the base.
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For a similar basket of slightly smaller size, see Bonhams, 10th September 2008, lot 281