Results: 1
-
View: Detail
-
-
- Baby-linen basket
- Lucas Luicksen (active between: 1652 - 1677)
- Deventer, Netherlands
-
- Date: c. 1650-1700
- Medium: Silver metal and gold, repoussé, embossed and chased
- Height: 7 cm
- Length: 63.5 cm
- Width: 34.3 cm
- Inv: W163
- Location: Sixteenth Century Gallery
Copy and paste the URL below to share this page:
- Description
- Provenance
- Marks/Inscriptions
- Further Reading
-
- This silver basket was probably used for a new-born child’s layette, which consisted of nappies, clothes and a christening dress. Baby-linen baskets were usually made of cane. However, the richest Dutch families owned baskets made of silver. Only seven baby-linen baskets made in the Netherlands are known to survive, all dating from the seventeenth century. This example bears the marks of the town of Deventer and the silversmith Lucas Luicksen. The relief in the centre depicts the fleeing Daphne being turned into a laurel tree to escape the attentions of Apollo. It derives from a design by the celebrated Utrecht silversmith Paulus van Vianen (1570-1613).