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Their function is uncertain. They may have been used as layette baskets, which held baby clothes, because they are similar in form to silver examples.  But it has also been suggested that they were made to celebrate betrothals or used at wedding ceremonies to hold gloves, sprigs of rosemary or other favours given to guests. Most examples depict a couple as the central motif. All of the design elements may be found in silk embroidery on domestic furnishings of the period.<br><br><b>Materials & Making</b><br>The basket is made from glass beads strung on linen thread and fine wire, supported on a wire frame lined with silk. Beadwork keeps true, clear colours, an advantage over coloured silks and wools, the usual  materials for embroidery. A beaded cushion in the V&A  dated 1657 bears the inscription 'natvrs flowers soon doe fade ful long we last cavse art vs made'.<br><br><b>Ownership & Use</b><br>Another beaded basket of identical design exists, with only the name and date different. This suggests that it may have been worked from a type of kit, or possibly made to commission as a gift, with the recipient's name added.","physicalDescription":"Tray-shaped basket with flat bottom and sloping sides, with a wire frame covered in silk. The centre beadwork panel shows a woman playing a lute and a man in a garden within an acanthus frame, with a cockatrice, pelican, stag and leopard in the corners, and floral motifs in the interspaces. The sides are beaded with a hunting scene, two large houses, bird, floral, and animal motifs ","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Gurnall, Sarah","id":"AUTH407379"},"association":{"text":"Makers","id":"AAT251917"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"glass","id":"AAT10797"},{"text":"linen (material)","id":"AAT14069"},{"text":"wire","id":"AAT11063"},{"text":"silk (textile)","id":"AAT243428"}],"techniques":[{"text":"beading (process)","id":"AAT235440"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Glass beads on linen thread and fine wire, lined with silk. The heads of the man and woman were originally painted and embroidered.","categories":[{"text":"Household objects","id":"THES48939"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"T&F","id":"THES48601"},"images":["2006AM3383","2006AM3385","2006AM3382","2011FD8342","2017JV8074"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"58C","id":"THES49235"},"free":"","case":"CA2","shelf":"","box":"4"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Basket","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"England","id":"x28826"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1659","earliest":"1659-01-01","latest":"1659-12-31"},"association":{"text":"dated","id":"AAT54714"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Brigadier W. E. Clark CMG, DSO through Art Fund","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"11","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"46.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"36","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions checked: Measured; 15/06/2000 by kb\n\nsee diagram; KB did not check display height","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"set with the maker or recipient's name :\r\nsarah gvrnall avgvst 24 anno 1659","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":"A8877"},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""}],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Basket, beadwork, 1659, English; Signed Sarah Gurnall","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"John Lea Nevinson, Catalogue of English Domestic Embroidery of the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries, Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Textiles, London: HMSO, 1938, p.57"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"British Galleries:\nDecorated baskets were often given as christening presents or as wedding presents. 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