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