Porcelain bride's basket with a pierced basket weave edge and double twisted rope handle. Interior features a painted polychrome decoration scene of a man and a woman in a landscape framed by swags of flowers.
baskets (containers)
porcelain
Basket
"Lille / 1767" (Painted in green on base.)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
FD119
Unknown
7 3/4 x 8 1/2 x 5 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1897
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