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The breadth of variety evident within this group was achieved by the employment of a wide range of cast and pierced decoration. This basket is one of about ten that superseded a variant with dense, heavily cast ornament, the finest examples of which are a pair of baskets of 1737 with pierced ladles at Woburn Abbey.\r\n\r\nSir Arthur Gilbert and his wife Rosalinde formed one of the world's great decorative art collections, including silver, mosaics, enamelled portrait miniatures and gold boxes. 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Phillips Ltd, London, 1970.\n\nHistorical significance: Cake or bread baskets were among de Lamerie's most popular forms: well over fifty are known, dating from between 1724 and 1751. The breadth of variety evident within this group was achieved by the employment of a wide range of cast and pierced decoration. This basket is one of about ten that superseded a variant with dense, heavily cast ornament, the finest examples of which are a pair of baskets of 1737 with pierced ladles at Woburn Abbey. The Gilbert basket is characteristic of the group with its treatment of the feet and its gadrooned decoration around the base, but it is one of the earliest and is corespondingly restrained in taste. Others, such as one of 1742 (sold Sotheby's, New York, June 17, 1981, lot 86), have exuberant details, such as asymmetrical scroll demifigures supporting the handles and applied lion masks on the border, as well as much freer and more varied piercing and engraving. 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