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- Maker: Peer Smed
- Medium: Silver
- Place Made: Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Dates: ca. 1935
- Dimensions: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 x 4 3/4 in. (14 x 21 x 12.1 cm)
- Markings: Stamped on bottom: "STERLING"; below in rectangle, "PEER / [hammer] / SMED" / below "HANDWROUGHT"
- Collections: Decorative Arts
- Museum Location:
This item is on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor - Accession Number: 85.211.2
- Credit Line: Gift of Wunsch Foundation, Inc.
- Image: Overall, 85.211.2_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
- Catalogue Description: Basket, silver. Ovid-form, dished, hand-wrought basket sits on slightly flaring foot; shaped handle is concave at arch and trefoil in shape at juncture with basket. Near handle juncture, basket has scalloped edge. At 2:00, 4:00, 8:00 and 10:00, leaves are applied to basket rim. The applied, central vein of these leaves becomes a stem and continues along the edge to form the rim on the ends of the basket. Hammered surface. CONDITION: Considerable wear and scratching to all surfaces, with minor pitting and place loss throughout, two leaves apparently repaired where leaf meets edge of bowl.
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Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum