PAIR OF STAFFORDSHIRE SALT-GLAZED STONEWARE RETICULATED BASKETS AND PLATES CIRCA 1760-70

Comprising a white salt-glazed stoneware circular basket and a green-glazed circular basket, each molded with fruiting branches, and a pair of green-glazed plates molded with melons and leaves at the rim. 4 pieces.

The green-glazed basket and plates: Wynn A. Sayman, Richmond, Massachusetts.

Green-glazed basket: long restored haircrack running from the rim beneath the handle at one end, down the side and across the base for almost its entire length. Salt-glazed basket: an approximate 2 1/2-in. area of restoration to a break on the side through a pierced section. Plates: generally good condition.
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See p. 151 for an illustration of this lot.