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Culture:	English
Title:	basket and stand
Date Made:	1770-1790
Type:	Food Service
Materials:	ceramic: lead-glazed refined earthenware (creamware); base metal: tinned sheet iron; paint
Place Made:	United Kingdom; England; Staffordshire or Yorkshire
Measurements:	overall: basket: 6 1/4 in x 10 1/2 in x 7 1/2 in; 15.875 cm x 26.67 cm x 19.05 cm; stand: 3/4 in x 10 in x 8 1/2 in
Accession Number:	HD 2011.2
Credit Line:	Hall and Kate Peterson Fund for Minor Antiques
Museum Collection:	Historic Deerfield

Description:
English creamware, oval fruit basket and stand which is identical to a creamware basket in the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association (PVMA) collection, which belonged to Lucy Frary (1754-1831) of Deerfield who married Colonel Joseph Stebbins (1749-1816) of Deerfield in 1774. It was inherited by their daughter, Caroline (Stebbins) Sheldon (1789-1865), and descended to her son, George Sheldon (1818-1916), founder of the PVMA in Deerfield. The slightly domed cover has a flower finial on a stem with leaves surrounded by a basketweave pattern, and then an openwork design and a solid rim decorated with a gadrooned edge; and a basket molded and pierced to form a basketwork effect with openwork sides and double, intertwined cord handles with flower and leaf terminals. This piece is unusual with its possibly period, blue-painted, oval tinned sheet iron liner possibly made to hold smaller fruits or even a sauce (?). The liner has two small ring handles just inside the interior ends used to place and remove the liner, and is seamed at both ends.

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