Circular toleware basket with pierced sides, molded rim, and repousse bottom. Red and gold decoration with central floral motif.
bread baskets (containers for food service)
tinware
painting (coating)
tin (metal)
Basket, Bread
Original to Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (Gloucester, Mass.),
Unknown
1 3/4 (H), 9 1/8 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann
1942.1728
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