Picnic basket
Category
Wooden objects
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wicker, metal, glass, wood, bone, cardboard and leather
Order this imageCollection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire (Accredited Museum)
NT 936354
Summary
Wicker picnic basket (a) with one handle detached, lid hinged at back; contains: six metal half pint cups (b); six small metal cups (c); two metal cups in woven straw holders (d); white ceramic sandwich box with metal lid (e); three condiment pots including a glass pot with metal lid, a glass pepper pot with metal perforated top and a brown pottery salt cellar with stopper (f); small cardboard cylindrical pot with lid (the top loose), possibly to hold the six small metal cups, dated 1928 (g); knife and fork with wooden handles (h); two fiddle pattern forks stamped 'WH' and two bone/ivory-handled knives by John Bagshawe & Son, Church Street, Liverpool (i); two enamelled metal side plates (j).
Provenance
Stamford collection; devised to the National Trust by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896-1976).