Cake Basket
date: label: date made
content: 1862 - 1877
name: label: parent company
content: Meriden Britannia Company
notes: label: Description
content: Bail-handled oval basket on flared oval pedestal base decorated at rim and base with cast bands of two rows of different-sized beads. Fluted, everted lower half encircles oval boss at bottom center. Hinged, semicircular handle has a plain, wavy edge, shell-ended segment at center and tapered ends with graduated beads. Circular medallion or tag applied on bottom underside is embossed "* ROGERS, SMITH & C\o. (arched) / (flourish) / N\o. / NEW HAVEN, C\T. * (curved)" and struck incuse "666".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, New Haven
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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: Mrs. Daniel (Harriette Q.) Gardner
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.1265
label: catalog number
content: 60.1265
label: accession number
content: 121578
objectType: label: Object Name
content: basket, cake
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: electroplated (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/8 in x 12 1/4 in x 10 3/8 in; 13.0175 cm x 31.115 cm x 26.3525 cm