Bread Basket
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930
label: date purchased
content: ca 1930
notes: label: Description
content: Rectangular, black-japanned bread basket or tray with flared sides, wire-rolled rim and flat bottom. Painted decoration on interior includes a wide yellow or white band above a thin yellow line that features a repeating pattern of three red cherries on a single stem attached to a seven-lobed green leaf; a yellow band overpainted with an undulating or wavy black line borders the well. Made in three pieces: bowl in two parts with separate bottom. No marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland
label: place purchased
content: United States: Maryland, Frederick
label: place used
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. John H. Murray (Anne W. Murray)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0503.03
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0503.03
label: accession number
content: 1990.0503
objectType: label: Object Name
content: basket, bread
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tinned sheet iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wire, iron (rim material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 12 1/2 in x 7 7/8 in; 5.715 cm x 31.75 cm x 20.0025 cm