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Description: | Marks of French provincial silver (cockerel in a hexagonal lozenge), "VI" on base CRE UNKNOWN; This is one of 12 various small Dutch and French silver baskets. They would originally have had liners, probably made from glass, but none of these remain. Whistler's plate book suggests that they would have been used for strawberries, though such baskets can be seen catalogued elsewhere as "cream pails" (see Clayton 1985, Christie's Pictorial History of English and American Silver, pp.222) This basket, along with several others in the collection, has a swing handle. The base of the basket bears Whistler's distinctive butterfly design.
This is part of a collection of over 350 pieces of flatware and cutlery from the Whistler Estate. Whistler's silver was a working collection of late 18th and early 19th century Dutch and English ware, acquired in the late 1880s and 1890s with his wife Beatrix Whistler. A plate book (coll. Glasgow University Library Special Collections, ref W NB7) records some purchases. Whistler's taste was for elegant neo-classical pieces which he often had marked with his distinctive butterfly design. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | WHISTLER CENTENARY : STAWBERRIES : BASKET : SILVER : FRUIT : IAA : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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