1079 - Pierced flower basket with swing handle, 800 silver, putti cartouches, rose garlands, after 1888

Pierced flower basket with swing handle, 800 silver, putti cartouches, rose garlands, after 1888 800 silver, pierced flower basket, also handled basket, with movable swing handle, hallmarked crescent and crown as well as standard "800". Shaped basket ending in points at the top, on a waisted stem with plain ring, trumpet-shaped flared foot with lobed rim, pierced and in relief throughout. On both sides rocaille cartouches with putti in relief in a landscape, above them rose and flower garlands and a bird with spread wings, at the sides latticework and foliage, rim as a pierced band, swing handle also pierced. Condition commensurate with age. H. 32 cm, weight 888 g. 360-degree photo available on our website. Pierced work with rocailles and flower garlands belongs to the repertoire of Historicism, which took up Baroque and Rococo anew. The rocaille is the typical ornament of the 18th century, a shellwork of C- and S-shaped curved motifs ending in volutes. A centre of silverwork in historical styles was Hanau, whose firms specialised in it in the 2nd half of the 19th century and counted putti, birds and pierced work among their typical decorations. Pierced silver baskets of this kind, also called centrepieces or jardinières, usually received a glass liner of clear or coloured glass that held water, flowers or confectionery.