Epergne Basket
Epergne Basket
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- Description
- Small, bail-handled, raised and pierced oval basket on cast openwork oval ring of ruffled S scrolls and flowers with four C-scroll feet. Applied cast rim of intertwined reverse C scrolls and a garland of trailing flowers. Piercework design consists of eight panels separated by vertical ribs alternating between two of scrollwork and two of crosslets. Hinged, openwork handle has reverse C scrolls connected by flowers with a flower at bow. Inside bottom is engraved with a crest of a falcon on heraldic wreath. Basket interior struck below one handle with four hallmarks, a lion passant guardant in clipped-corner shield, "W·P" in raised roman letters in indented rectangle, crowned leopard's head in round-bottom shield, and the raised gothic or Old English letter "I" or "L" in a surround.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- basket
- date made
- 1766
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, London
- place used
- Italy
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 1/2 in x 6 3/8 in x 5 in; 6.35 cm x 16.1925 cm x 12.7 cm
- ID Number
- DL.63.0825
- catalog number
- 63.0825
- accession number
- 245151
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Hugh E. Cailler
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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