Basket
Category
Ceramics
Date
1796 - 1820
Materials
Ceramic
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
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Saltram, Devon
NT 870769.3.3
Summary
One of four small oval baskets from a Chinese export dessert service. Decorated in colours with fruit, flowers and leafage and the gilt edges. NOTE: It is believed that some of this collection has been incorrectly catalogued. Using our two sets of old inventory record cards as reference it would appear this item does not exist - May 2022
Provenance
Possibly acquired by John Parker (1772-1840), 2nd Lord Boringdon and by descent to Edmund Robert Parker (1877-1951), 4th Earl of Morley and accepted in part payment of Death Duty by HM Treasury and transferred to NT in 1957.