Cake Basket
date: label: date made
content: 1874
label: patent date
content: 1874-01-13
name: label: maker
content: Meriden Britannia Company
notes: label: Description
content: Bail-handled, circular tray on a four-legged stand with a gold-washed, winged putto holding grapes perched on a ball at center between them. Tray has raised sides and an everted rim with projecting, curvilinear pendant collar featuring bright cut, Eastlake-style motifs; interior is flat-chased or -stamped with diagonal ribbons against flowers and two pairs of winged putti kissing. Crossed, scroll-ended bars with relief-decorated, curvilinear brackets form handle and four legs; triple semicircular fan finial tops handle, while legs end in flat discs for feet. Underside of one foot os struck with an incuse circular mark containing a pointed shield bordered by "MERIDEN / B. COMPANY" in sans serif letters above "1751"; another foot has a pointed oval.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Meriden
topic: label: Subject
content: Patented
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Food
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Insilco Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0424.11
label: accession number
content: 1984.0424
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0424.11
objectType: label: Object Name
content: basket, cake
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (gilding material)
label: Physical Description
content: electroplated (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/4 in x 11 7/8 in x 10 1/8 in; 23.495 cm x 30.1625 cm x 25.7175 cm