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Silver
Origin: London
Date: 1777-1778
31.5 cm length; 26.2 cm width; 24 cm height; 529 g weight
Marks/Maker: London, sterling standard, 1777-8, maker's mark of Richard Mills
Heraldry: Arms of La Marchant impaling Fiott, for Thomas La Marchant (d.1816) who married in 1752 Esther, daughter of John Fiott of Guernsey
Provenance: Thomas La Marchant (d.1816); by descent to Sir Denis La Marchant; by gift to Maria Farrer, the collector's mother
Bequeathed by W.F. Farrer, 1946; WA1946.182
T. Schroder (2009), no. 253
This basket represents the emergence of neoclassical design. The rapid rise of the neoclassical style plate owes to the designs being suited to industrial methods of production. Thin metal of a consistent gauge could be easily achieved with the flatting-mills and the 'fly-punch' was quick to produce intricate open-work patterns.
Information derived from T. Schroder, British and Continental Gold and Silver in the Ashmolean (2009)
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