Bread Basket
1761-1762 (made)
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This bread basket held bread, fruit or cake and would have been handed round the table. The silversmith used a small chisel to punch out the pierced diaper decoration you can see here.
Bread baskets were particularly popular items of tableware throughout the period 1700-1800. They were usually circular, oval or boat-shaped with an everted (turned-out) rim and a high arched, bail handle which was sometimes fixed but more often hinged. The sides were decorated by piercing or die stamping or a combination of both techniques. The basket usually rested on a supporting rim with similar decoration.
Bread baskets were particularly popular items of tableware throughout the period 1700-1800. They were usually circular, oval or boat-shaped with an everted (turned-out) rim and a high arched, bail handle which was sometimes fixed but more often hinged. The sides were decorated by piercing or die stamping or a combination of both techniques. The basket usually rested on a supporting rim with similar decoration.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Silver, pierced |
| Brief description | Bread basket, pierced diaper work decoration, silver, London 1761-2, Mark of 'E.R.' |
| Physical description | Bread basket, silver, marked 'E.R.', pierced decoration forming a variety of decorative diaper work around the edge of the basket. |
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| Object history | The piercing of the metal, made inexpensively by a mechanical process, which replaced the earlier hand-punching, produces a variety of decorative diaper work around the edge of the basket. |
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| Summary | This bread basket held bread, fruit or cake and would have been handed round the table. The silversmith used a small chisel to punch out the pierced diaper decoration you can see here. Bread baskets were particularly popular items of tableware throughout the period 1700-1800. They were usually circular, oval or boat-shaped with an everted (turned-out) rim and a high arched, bail handle which was sometimes fixed but more often hinged. The sides were decorated by piercing or die stamping or a combination of both techniques. The basket usually rested on a supporting rim with similar decoration. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | CIRC.398-1925 |
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| Record created | September 10, 2004 |
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