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Basket
Silver
Origin: London
Date: c.1745
44.6 cm length; 34.9 cm width; 27.7 cm height; 2594 g weight
Marks/Maker: Maker's mark only of Nicholas Sprimont
Heraldry: Arms, marshalled in a blazon of ten quarters, of Skrymsher, Skrimshire or Scrimshawe and Reve (the rest unidentified), nineteenth-century engraving
Provenance: Asher Wertheimer
Presented by Mrs J.C. Conway, 1959; WA1959.40.4
T. Schroder (2009), no. 251
Unfortunately, this basket has been extensively damaged and badly repaired. The original arms have also been erased. It belongs to a pair, the other being in the Gilbert Collection, and was possibly part of a larger ensemble. The Ashburnham centrepiece by Sprimont, marked for 1747, in the Victoria and Albert Museum is potentially associated with the pair.
Information derived from T. Schroder, British and Continental Gold and Silver in the Ashmolean (2009)
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