Pierced Oval Cake Basket
date: label: Date
content: 1758
name: label: Maker
content: Thomas Heming, English, 1723 – 1801
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Oval cake basket with pierced trellis and foliate motif decoration, broad rim with grape clusters and wheat ears, and latticework bail handle with foliate scrolls and female busts at hinges. On four scroll feet headed with frilled shells. Interior of basket bowl engraved with a later coat of arms, crests, motto, and inscribed banderoles.
place: label: made in
content: London, England
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. J. A. Q. Franks
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1977-62-6
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: basket
label: Type
content: basket
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 26.3 × 33 × 27.7 cm (10 3/8 in. × 13 in. × 10 7/8 in.)