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Cake Basket
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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.
Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
Daniel Berkeley Updike Cambridge MA Gift to Harvard University 1942.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Loan from Harvard University; Bequest of Daniel Berkeley Updike in memory of J. Montgomery Sears of the Class of 1900
Title: Cake Basket
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.
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