A Dutch silver bread basket

MAKER'S MARK OF WILHELMUS ANGENENDT, AMSTERDAM, 1777

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A Dutch silver bread basket
Maker's mark of Wilhelmus Angenendt, Amsterdam, 1777
Oval, on four scroll supports, the spreading body engraved with geometrical decoration, the rim pierced into lines and with twisted rope border centred by two scrolls, with scroll handles
30cm. (11in.) wide
marked underneath
570gr.

Lot Essay

For a similar breadbasket from the same period see Gans, M.H. and Duyven de Wit, Th., De geschiedenis van het Nederlandse zilver, Amsterdam, 1958, plate 118.

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