Three Worcester Yellow-Ground Reticulated Baskets, Circa 1765

Three Worcester Yellow-Ground Reticulated Baskets, Circa 1765

comprising:

a two-handled oval basket, the sides pierced applied with florets to the exterior, the interior with blue scale ground borders, reserved in the base with a large mixed flower spray, the sides with small sprigs, blue fretted square mark.

and a pair of circular baskets, the flared sides formed of interlocking circles and molded on the exterior with green and yellow flowerheads, the interiors painted with flower sprays beneath scattered floral sprigs.

Diameter 8 5/8 in.

21.9 cm