Basket
ca. 1760
Medium
Salt-glazed stoneware
Dimensions
3 1/4 × 9 1/2 in. (8.3 × 24.1 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Pottery
Culture
possibly British, Shelton, Staffordshire
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Carleton Macy, 1934
Accession Number
34.165.68
Art Historical Context
This delicate salt-glazed stonewareBasket*, crafted around 1760 by Ralph and John Baddeley— father and son potters from Shelton, Staffordshire—is a charming example of 18th-century British ceramics Measuring just 3¼ × 9½ inches, its modest scale belies the technical prowess required to shape it into a realistic basket form, evoking woven textures of wickerwork through molded clay. Now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Department of European Sculpture and Decor Arts, it was generously gifted by Carleton Macy in 1934. Salt-glazing, the defining technique here, involved introducing salt...
About the Artist
Ralph Baddeley|John Baddeley ( | ) · 1700 |1700 –1800 |1800
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