Cake Basket
Artist
Samuel Courtauld I
(English, 1720 - 1765)
Date1751
MediumSilver
DimensionsOverall: 9 3/4 × 14 × 11 1/4 inches (24.77 × 35.56 × 28.58 cm)
Credit LineThe Folgers Coffee Silver Collection, Gift of The Procter & Gamble Company; Collected by Joseph S. Atha
Object numberF99-21/60 A,B
On View
On viewGallery Location
- 121
Collections
DescriptionA pierced work, oblong silver basket with a removable handle. It sits on four scroll and mask feet. The center is engraved with a coat-of-arms (Church impaling Selby).Gallery LabelSamuel Courtauld I followed his silversmith father, Augustin II, in creating well-proportioned forms, yet he excelled in infusing his works with the newly fashionable Rococo style seen in this cake basket. The edges ripple with scrolls and shells, the body is pierced with swirls and dashes and the handle undulates with curves not typically found in this form. As this basket filled with cake was placed on the table, diners could see the exotic, turbaned masks on the four feet, alluding to the 18th-century European interest in foreign cultures.
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