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Covered basket
(1745-1750)
Medium
porcelain (soft-paste)
Measurements
(a-b) 7.4 × 10.4 × 7.6 cm (overall)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Wynne Morris Collection. Presented through The Art Foundation of Victoria by Mr Peter Wynne Morris, Governor, 1997
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Mennecy, Seine-et-Oise, France
Inscription
impressed in base c.: ·D·V·
Accession Number
1997.123.a-b
Department
International Decorative Arts
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Physical description
The Mennecy basket, designed as a miniature pot-pourri or pastille burner, has a pierced, domed cover encrusted with flowers and its body, moulded with basket-weave, has two rope-twist handles.