Silver George III Sugar Basket Peter, Ann & William Bateman

A silver sugar basket of navette form on an oval pedestal foot, the body engraved with a finely worked band of trailing foliage and floral ornament between beaded borders. Made by the celebrated Bateman family, whose name is synonymous with the finest late Georgian silversmithing, this sugar basket is a characteristic and accomplished example of their work, refined, well-proportioned and beautifully engraved.