Cake Basket
date: label: date made
content: 1856 - 1862
notes: label: Description
content: Bail-handled, boat-shaped oval basket on flared oval pedestal base with overall grapevine decoration, including applied cast clusters of fruit and leaves at rim, four flat-chased and repousse clusters inside bowl, a cast continuous vine around foot, and two intertwined vines forming the U-shaped handle. Struck incuse on bowl underside with semicircular mark of "ROGERS.SMITH & C\o. (arched) / HARTFORD.CONN." in serif letters containing "1864" (overstruck by a line) inside.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Hartford
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of the Misses Long
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.1151
label: catalog number
content: 60.1151
label: accession number
content: 113420
objectType: label: Object Name
content: basket, cake
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/8 in x 9 5/8 in x 12 in; 13.6525 cm x 24.4475 cm x 30.48 cm