Cake Basket
date: label: date made
content: ca 1905
name: label: previous owner
content: Pell, Alfred Duane
notes: label: Description
content: Bail-handled, raised and pierced oval basket on a cast openwork oval ring of shells, scrolls and flowers with four, six-lobed feet. Applied cast, serpentine-lobed, gadrooned rim with shells and flowers. Piercework design consists of twelve panels separated by lines of graduated beads that alternate between one scrollwork pattern and two different diaper patterns. Hinged handle has pierced crosslets across its serpentine bow and C and S scrolls at ends; hinges riveted through rim. Rim underside struck with four hallmarks: "B·L" in raised roman letters in clipped-corner rectangle, the raised roman letter "k" in clipped-corner shield, lion passant guardant in clipped-corner shield, and crowned leopard's head in clipped-corner, round-bottom shield. Centerpunch visible.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
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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: DL.60.0334
label: catalog number
content: 60.0334
label: accession number
content: 225282
objectType: label: Object Name
content: basket, cake
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 15 1/8 in x 12 1/2 in; 15.24 cm x 38.4175 cm x 31.75 cm