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