A James I silver basket, London, 1612, maker’s mark three mullets

Presumably with Charles & George Fox, London, by 1848,

Christie's, London, 4 June 2013, lot 343,

Christie's, London, The David Little Collection, 3 December 2019, lot 124

T. Schroder; English Silver Before the Civil War, The David Little Collection; Cambridge; 2015; pp. 68, 69, 148-149, cat. no. 20.

This basket, and also the maker's mark stamped on it, were unrecorded until the 2013 sale at Christie's, London (see provenance). It is the third earliest English silver basket known, after one hallmarked for 1597 and illustrated in M. Clayton; The Collector's Dictionary of the Silver and Gold of Great Britain and North America; Woodbridge; 1985; p. 23, and another of 1602 cited (but not referenced) in the same book. The form remained much the same until the 1730s: straight-sided with open-work sides and rope twist borders simulating wickerwork baskets of the same period.

Victorian replicas of the current basket exist, marked for Charles & George Fox, London, 1848. This manufacturing firm is known to have made replicas of early English and continental silver for the retailers Lambert & Rawlings (later Lambert & Co.) from at least 1829 to 1870.