Dutch silver sweetmeat basket
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Dutch silver sweetmeat basket
Jan Cornelis van Hemert
Middelburg, 1799
The boat-shaped basket with beaded borders is engraved with scrolling foliage, swags and birds. The ring-shaped handles are suspending from lion’s heads.
Associated literature:
de Bree, Zeeuws zilver, Schiedam, 1975, p.119, nr. 215
