Collections: Decorative Arts: Basket

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Basket

• 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
Peer Smed. Basket, ca. 1935. Silver, 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 x 4 3/4 in. (14 x 21 x 12.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, 85.211.2 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 85.211.2_bw.jpg)
• 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.