Epergne Basket
date: label: date made
content: 1768
notes: label: Description
content: Small, bail-handled, raised and pierced circular basket on pierced circular footring. Cast and applied, four serpentine-lobed gadrooned rim with ruffled shells and small oval bosses. Spiral piercework design consists of eight alternating panels of scrollwork and circles separated by shallow S-curve lines of graduated beads. Handle has an oblong panel at bow and tapered ends. Four hallmarks struck on well underside: "W·T" in raised roman letters in a rounded rectangle, the raised gothic or Old English letter "N" in a clipped-corner shield, lion passant guardant in clipped-corner rectangle, and crowned leopard's head in round-bottom shield.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Francis T. Redwood
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.377444
label: catalog number
content: 377444
label: accession number
content: 138933
objectType: label: Object Name
content: basket
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 6 in; 5.08 cm x 15.24 cm