William Cripps

( Unknown - 1767 )

The Bagshawe Basket

William Cripps

( Unknown - 1767 )

The Bagshawe Basket

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A George III Cake Basket

London, 1750
Maker’s mark of William Cripps

Length: 32 cm, 12.6 in
Weight: 1,881.6 g, 60 oz 10 dwt

Arms of Bagshawe of Ford Hall and Banner Cross Hall

The basket oval, on four corkscrew and foliate supports, the sides pierced with panels of quatrefoils and scrolls, the ground engraved with coat-of-arms within rocaille, floral and foliate scroll surround terminating in garland crowned mask, with applied openwork fruited grapevine rim, with conforming and wheat sheaf decorated joins, to the part decorated moulded swing handle.

PROVENANCE SILVERSMITH BIOGRAPHY

Christies East 22nd October 1997 lot 192

Son of Edward Cripps late Newport in the County Of Buckingham yeoman deceased, apprenticed to David Willaume junior 8 January 1731. No premium stated. Free, 2 May 1738. First mark entered as largeworker, 31 August 1743. Address: Crown and Golden Ball, Compton Street. Second mark, 16 July 1746, on moving to Golden Ball, St James's Street. Livery, January 1750. Third mark, 16 November 1751. Died about 1 September 1767, according to the apprenticeship to him of William Hall and the turning over of the latter 3 September of that year. As might be expected from his training under Willaume he became an accomplished craftsman and a versatile exponent of the rococo style; to judge from his surviving pieces he enjoyed a considerable clientele.