Cake Basket

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Description

Shaped oval on slightly spreading pierced with a band of scrolls under a molded rim, the everted sides pierced with scrolls, crescents, lozenges and circles within an applied foliate scroll and rocaille rim; the multi-scroll swing handle chased with scrolls and rocaille, issuing from dolphin heads; the center engraved with an elaborate foliate scroll, rocaille and trelliswork cartouche flanked by floral sprays and headed by a female mask, enclosing a coat of arms.

Dimensions

11.8 x 32.1 x 27.6 cm (4 5/8 x 12 5/8 x 10 7/8 in.) unspecified: 1696 g

Provenance

Daniel Berkeley Updike, Cambridge, MA, Gift to Harvard University, 1942.