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.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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