Basket
date: label: date made
content: ca 1815
notes: label: Description
content: Raised, rectangular boat-shaped basket with deep curved well and everted rim that extends at both ends to incurved, scrolled-under, horizontal cylindrical handles. Applied, cast grape clusters at centers of both ends. Die-stamped bands of roses are at rim, interrupted by three pendant shells and leafy scrolls placed along sides, and at bottom atop four cast griffin feet. Underside of rounded bottom struck "FLETCHER & GARDINER" and "PHILAD\A/." both in raised roman letters in rectangles. Centerpoint visible.
label: Description
content: Maker is Fletcher & Gardner (Thomas Fletcher [1787-1866] and Sidney Gardiner [1785-1827]), while working in Philadelphia, 1811-1827.
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Miss Sarah Ella Cummings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.326501
label: catalog number
content: 326501
label: accession number
content: 71365
objectType: label: Object Name
content: basket
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 16 in x 8 5/8 in; 11.43 cm x 40.64 cm x 21.9075 cm