Frederick Marquand & Company
Cake Basket
1833-1838
Physical Qualities
Silver, 4 3/8 × 16 1/2 × 12 1/4 in. (11.1 × 41.9 × 31.1 cm.)
Credit Line
Decorative Arts Fund
Object Number
1988.6
Revisiting an elegant early Federal form, Frederick Marquand (1799 – 1882) offered a robust sculptural version of the cake basket to customers who visited his new store at 181 Broadway in New York.
Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1988
Wendy A. Cooper. Classical Taste in America 1800-1840. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art; New York: Abbeville Press, 1993, page 180.
Inscribed: Engraved monogram "W"
Markings: stamped on the underside: "MARQUAND" "G Co." "NEW YORK"
On View: American Wing Second Floor, Scott 05A/Case 2
