BASKET
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
A mottled and speckled brown basket with two braided intertwined handles. The basket has been pinched closed in two spots just beyond where the handles are attached.
- Object name:
- BASKET
- Made from:
- Earthenware
- Made in:
- England
- Size:
- 9.5 x 17.8 cm (3 3/4 x 7 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 27.28
- Class:
- CERAMICS
- Signature marks:
- MARK; LABEL scratched in paste at bottom: 5; inside basket is a piece of paper: First Early Slip Ware Speckled, mottled was potted about 1790 not later than 1796. This method finished about this date when the Staffordshire potters started coloring their casts.
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973