Bonbon Basket
date: label: date made
content: 1892 - 1898
notes: label: Description
content: Bail-handled, fluted oval basket on a plain, flared oval base with rounded foot. Applied cast gadrooning on ouside below concave-sided rim and at mid-shaft. Hinged, cast fasces pattern, U-shape handle. Flat bottom on underside of base is struck incuse with two rows of three combined marks: a left-facing lion passant, bell inside a horizontally-hatched oval, and three plumes or Prince of Wales feathers above a bell in square between two arm-and-hammer motifs in squares. One of two bonbon or candy baskets, DL.60.1158A-B.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Hartford
label: place owned; place used
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
topic: label: Subject
content: Eating
label: Subject
content: Sugar
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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 Laura Dreyfus-Barney and Natalie Clifford Barney
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.1158B
label: catalog number
content: 60.1158B
label: accession number
content: 152368
objectType: label: Object Name
content: basket
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: electroplated (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 6 3/8 in x 4 3/8 in; 12.7 cm x 16.1925 cm x 11.1125 cm