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Basket

1731/32
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 512
Silver baskets, often referring in their design to wicker prototypes, were made in pairs as part of a dinner service and were used for serving bread or cake. This basket and its mate were part of a large acquisition of silver made by the 8th Earl of Exeter to furnish the Elizabethan manor Burghley House.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Basket
  • Maker: John Edwards II (British, active 1723–ca. 1753)
  • Date: 1731/32
  • Culture: British, London
  • Medium: Silver, silver plate
  • Dimensions: Overall (basket, confirmed): 9 x 17 1/2 x 13 3/4 in., 90 oz. 17 dwg. (22.9 x 44.5 x 34.9 cm, 2.8255kg);
    Overall (liner, confirmed): 5 x 13 1/8 x 10 3/4 in. (12.7 x 33.3 x 27.3 cm)
  • Classification: Metalwork-Silver
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Richardson, Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, Mr. and Mrs. Michel David-Weill, Ada Peluso and Romano I. Peluso, Annette de la Renta, Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation, H. Rodes and Patricia Hart, Irene Roosevelt Aitken, Mr. and Mrs. Sid R. Bass, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Friedland, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, Stephen K. Scher, Alexis Gregory, Armin Bran Allen, Ford Family Foundation, Iris Foundation and Carol B. Grossman Gifts, in honor of Ian Wardropper, 2011
  • Object Number: 2011.432a, b
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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