Sugar Basket
1803-1804
Artists
Description
Boat-shaped on spreading oval foot, lobed at the shoulder, with reeded swing handle; the side engraved in the nineteenth century with a continental European crown and monogram
Dimensions
21.2 × 17.5 × 11.1 cm (8 3/8 × 6 7/8 × 4 3/8 in.) 287 g
Provenance
Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949.
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