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Cake Basket
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Bail-handled oval basket on flared oval pedestal base decorated at rim and base with cast bands of two rows of different-sized beads. Fluted, everted lower half encircles oval boss at bottom center. Hinged, semicircular handle has a plain, wavy edge, shell-ended segment at center and tapered ends with graduated beads. Circular medallion or tag applied on bottom underside is embossed "* ROGERS, SMITH & C\o. (arched) / (flourish) / N\o. / NEW HAVEN, C\T. * (curved)" and struck incuse "666".
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineCake Basket. 1862 - 1877. Meriden Britannia Company. National Museum of American History, Mrs. Daniel (Harriette Q.) Gardner. CC0.
