Old London silver, its history, its makers and its marks (1903)
Howard, Montague · New York, Scribner · leaf 225
f this description. Paul Lamerie produced somevery fine pierced baskets, which were decorated with flow-ers, birds, insects, etc., in his peculiar style. Towards the end of the eighteenth century there was notso much piercing used, but the baskets were still oval shape,sometimes very plain, and at… … CAKE-BASKETS .83 147). Baskets of the latter description were often elabo-rately chased. The George III type represented in No. 146is considered the most graceful and desirable basket that hasever been made. We have seen a basket of this periodwith an ornamental pierced separation like a fence…
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