Bread basket

Carl Benjamin Schultz, Danzig, 1804-1836
750 fine silver, wrought, beaded, moled, m. 280 g; goldsmith's marks: goldsmith's name mark, Gdansk city punch mark, Carl Stumpf's senior guild mark "CSt" in 1814, 1818, 1819, Warsaw hallmark from 1963-1986 for silver sample 4 (750); length 24 cm.

Basket with oval bottom, openwork collar formed of lanceolate leaves. Edge decorated with a mottled palmetto ornament. Movable handle, decorated with panoplies and stylized floral thread; length 24 cm.
An analogous basket is in the collection of the National Museum in Gdansk (B. Tucholka-Wlodarska, Goldsmithing from the 14th to the 20th century, Gdansk 2005, item V.15).