A Vauxhall delftware fruit basket, circa 1750
Of shallow circular form with a pierced border of interlaced circles, painted in blue with the Lotus pattern after a Chinese prototype, 25cm diam
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Provenance:Louis L. Lipski, Sotheby's sale 10 March 1981, lot 215With Jonathan HorneThis is one of a pair of identical baskets from the Lipski Collection, the companion now in the Victoria and Albert Museum and illustrated by Michael Archer, Delftware (1997), fig. G15. Dennis Cockell found matching fragments at Vauxhall, see his ECC paper, Some Finds of Pottery at Vauxhall Cross (1974), pl.134.