Epergne Basket
date: label: date made
content: 1766
notes: label: Description
content: Small, bail-handled, raised and pierced oval basket on cast openwork oval ring of ruffled S scrolls and flowers with four C-scroll feet. Applied cast rim of intertwined reverse C scrolls and a garland of trailing flowers. Piercework design consists of eight panels separated by vertical ribs alternating between two of scrollwork and two of crosslets. Hinged, openwork handle has reverse C scrolls connected by flowers with a flower at bow. Inside bottom is engraved with a crest of a falcon on heraldic wreath. Basket interior struck below one handle with four hallmarks, a lion passant guardant in clipped-corner shield, "W·P" in raised roman letters in indented rectangle, crowned leopard's head in round-bottom shield, and the raised gothic or Old English letter "I" or "L" in a surround.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
label: place used
content: Italy
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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. Hugh E. Cailler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.63.0825
label: catalog number
content: 63.0825
label: accession number
content: 245151
objectType: label: Object Name
content: basket
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 6 3/8 in x 5 in; 6.35 cm x 16.1925 cm x 12.7 cm