The Holburne Museum in Bath wants to buy the 17th Century basket, made to celebrate the reign of King Charles II.
In 1700, Charles II of Spain died and was succeeded by Philip V, marking the start of the War of Spanish Succession.
It depicts Charles II next to a castle within a leafy landscape.
Was the same corpse exhumed and mutilated after Charles II came to the throne, ending Britain's brief experiment with republicanism and military rule?
In the film, Depp plays John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester, a well-known scoundrel in the court of Charles II (who is played by John Malkovich).
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He came from a religious family (the family tree includes a Roman Catholic priest who helped Charles II escape after the battle of Worcester in 1651).
Upon the restoration of Stanley rule under Charles II, Christian, a hero to the Manx but a traitor to the Stanleys, was executed at Hango Hill, near Castletown.
And diarists Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn wrote of the spectacle they witnessed when King Charles II took part in a pageant in 1660, a year after the restoration of the monarchy.
In 1675, the foundation stone of the Royal Observatory was laid at Greenwich in south London by order of King Charles II, to improve knowledge of the positions of stars and thus aid navigation.
Frederick died in 1632, but Elizabeth lived on in the Dutch Republic for a further 30 years, returning to England in 1661, a year before her death and a year after the restoration of her nephew Charles II.
The man who restored the ruined gardens of Moseley Old Hall in Staffordshire (soil neutral, altitude 250ft, annual rainfall 27in) to their original state in the 17th century, when Charles II knew the place, did not seem the sort of expert you would ask about growing potatoes.
ECONOMIST: Graham Stuart Thomas, gardener, died on April 17th, aged 94
Eventually he became court painter to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Philip II, King of Spain.
Charles met Pope John Paul II in 1985 when he visited Rome with Diana, Princess of Wales.
He also made a humorous reference to a story that dominated the UK headlines Wednesday, involving two Australian DJs who made a prank call to the hospital in which they impersonated Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles.
Paris has always resented Washington's post-World War II dominance in Western Europe, which is why Charles de Gaulle pulled France out of NATO's military structure in the mid-1960s.
Their wedding had to be delayed for Charles to attend the funeral of the previous pontiff, Pope John Paul II.
Later, Prince Charles was visiting the recently restored Dolbelydr House, a 16th Century Grade II listed building in Trefnant, Denbighshire, before going on the Welsh College of Horticulture in Northop, Flintshire.
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