Basket
- Object Name:
- Basket
- Object ID:
- 2017.014.029
- Creator:
- Gruen Watch Company
- Place of Origin:
- Cincinnati, OH
- Date:
- circa 1900
- Description:
- Basket, silver. Stepped, round foot and stem, attached to broad bowl, with wide, sloping lip. Half-trefoil shaped handle attached to pivots on sides by rivets. Lip of basket is marked with lines in wisp pattern. Inboard of that is open, with pattern of overlapping circles. Marked on bottom, "STERLING / WEIGHTED" with "Gruen" on a shield.
- Material:
- Silver
- Dimensions:
- H-4.5 Dia-6 inches
- Provenance:
- Part of the Ethel Cilley Stone Collection, consisting of objects, documents, photographs, and memorabilia related to James Stone (1780-1874) and his wife Mary East Beard Stone (1791-1875) of Dunbarton; their son Captain Andrew J. Stone (1828-1864) of Dunbarton, California, etc.; Wesley Page Stone (1833-1916) and his wife Alice Patten Cilley (1849-1934) of Dunbarton; and their daughter, schoolteacher and family historian Ethel Cilley Stone (1884-1981) of Dunbarton and Goffstown.
The collection descended to Ethel Cilley Stone. After her death, the bulk of her estate passed to her minister, Rev. Graham T. Rowley (1932-2012) of Goffstown, then to his children, the donors. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Daniel T. Rowley and Elizabeth A. Rowley
- People:
- Stone, Alice P. (1849-1934)
- Subjects:
- Silver services
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