Cake Basket
date: label: date made
content: after 1850
notes: label: Description
content: Bail-handled, rounded rectangular basket with flared sides and applied cast grapevine decoration at rim on a flared and molded, circular pedestal base. Inside bottom has a flat chased C-scroll reserve at center surrounded by sprigs of serrated leaves springing from leaf-spurred scrolls. Hinged, round-cornered square handle with empty oval boss at top center and floral relief-decorated, undulating tapered ends; hinges secured through rim and covered with boss on underside. No marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fielding Pope Meigs, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.67.0728
label: catalog number
content: 67.0728
label: accession number
content: 248268
objectType: label: Object Name
content: basket, cake
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/8 in x 12 in x 8 3/4 in; 10.4775 cm x 30.48 cm x 22.225 cm