Old Sheffield plate bread basket, of rectangular form with gadroon and shell border and a bold leaf and shell motif either end, with a swing handle, on four ball feet, the base engraved on an inset panel with initials within a shell and scroll motif, apparently unmarked, c. 1780. Height 13 cm. Width 36 cm. Depth 28 cm. Provenance: Purchased Stanley Libscombe Antiques, Sydney, to Norman Wheeler, Maitland. Private Collection, Sydney