Rare Spode ‘Cockle Shell’ basket, flower sprays pat. 2234, c. 1820

$780.00 AUD

Rare Spode porcelain basket, formed as a series of linked Cockle Shells, each brightly coloured to the exterior & set in a bed of ‘seaweed’, a handle mid-way with the same green, on four gilt ball feet, the interior painted with a series of flower sprigs within gilt foliage and wide lavender band.
Red SPODE mark,
pattern no. 2234.
Circa 1820

one shell broken & re-stuck
18cm wide, 6.5cm high

ref. Whiter ‘SPODE’ p251 for a similar example in the Spode museum, but without the small ball feet and not decorated inside.

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