Pair of porcelain pierced baskets. White with mauve banding and gilt decoration.
fruit bowls
porcelain
gilding
Basket, Food
Basket, Fruit
Basket, Fruit
Norton, Catherine Eliot
Used At Shady Hill,
Possibly Sevres Porcelain Manufactory
8 1/2 x 7 1/4 (HxD) (inches)
Bequest of Susan Norton
1990.156.44-45
Cambridge (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
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