Bread Basket
date: label: date made
content: ca 1830 - 1870
notes: label: Description
content: Japanned oval basket or pan with tall, tapered sides cut with two semicircular or lunette handles at its higher ends and painted along its lower sides with wide white bands containing a repeating pattern, from right to left, of a red tulip with blue-dotted center next to an orange, red and blue flower, a green and orange leaf, and a shaded or fingered red-to-yellow pomegranate at far left; yellow and alizarin overstrokes with black veins and a few curlicues or squiggles in the open spaces. Yellow brushwork under the handles. Crystallized well with yellow border overpainted with thin black lattice fence strokes. Made in three pieces with a molded, wire-rolled rim, folded seams, and a flat bottom. No marks.
label: Description
content: Attributed to either the Harvey Filley Tinshop, circa 1818-1853, or Frederick Zeitz Tinshop, both in Philadelphia, PA.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0119.31
label: accession number
content: 1978.0119
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0119.31
objectType: label: Object Name
content: basket, bread
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tinned sheet iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (rim material)
label: Physical Description
content: asphaltum (overall decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 5/8 in x 12 5/8 in x 7 3/4 in; 9.2075 cm x 32.0675 cm x 19.685 cm