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Description: | typical of french provincial silver (cockerel in a hexagonal lozenge) CRE UNKNOWN; This is one of a collection of 12 various small Dutch and French silver baskets for fruit. They would all have originally had liners, probably made from glass but none of these remain. The basket has a plain solid oval base, straight wire sides and a swing handle. The interior base is engraved with a small butterfly. Whistler's Plate book suggests that the basket was for strawberries.
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 : STRAWBERRIES : 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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