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Basin
Basin, earthenware, standing on a spreading rounded waisted foot-rim, rounded curving sides and flaring everted rim, six notches and lobes to the rim; transfer-printed in blue with to the centre of the well the 'Oriental Basket' pattern, in the foreground a tall-stemmed bowl containing flowers with exotic birds to either side of it, and a round Oriental pagoda, in the background a pseudo-oriental landscape with European and Oriental shipping and Oriental buildings, a border of flowers and foliage around the bottom portion of the scene, wide border to the interior and exterior sides of alternating exotic birds and baskets of fruit and flowers enclosed by festooned flowers and foliage and interspersed with ribbon-tied pendant leaves.