Basket

Basket

Basket, (fr. corbeille): there are several varieties of baskets found figured in coats of arms.

1. Ordinary or hand-baskets, sometimes termed wicker baskets.

Azure, three baskets or--GARDEN.

Sable, three baskets[like fig. 1] argent--LITTLEBURY.

Sable, three wicker baskets[otherwise dossers] with handles argent--Sir John LITTLEBORNE.

Sable, a bend or, between three hand baskets argent--WOOLSTON, co. Devon. 1716.

Gules, three covered baskets or--PENTNEY Priory, Norfolk.

2. In one or two cases Religious houses seem to have borne a kind of bread basket filled with loaves or wastel cakes.

Sable, three baskets full of bread argent--MIDDLETON Abbey, Dorset.

Azure, three baskets or--GARDEN.

Argent, two bars sable ..... a basket of bread(i.e. wastel-cakes) or on the sinister side--London, BETHLEHEM Hospital.

Azure, a basket of fruit proper between three mitres or--JANE, Bp. of Norwich, 1499-1501.

3. Winnowing-baskets. These have various names, that of Vane of Vannet being the commonest. But the same kind of basket, which has, when badly drawn, been mistaken for an escallop-shell, is also termed Fan, Fruttle, and Shruttle,

Sire Robert de SEVENS de azure, a iij vans de or--Roll, temp. ED. II.

[N.B. The brass of Sir H. de Septvans in Chartham Church, Kent(ob. A.D. 1306), has the three vanes only, and not seven, as might have been expected from the name.]

The four implements, viz. prime, iron, cutting-knife, and outsticker, used in basket-making are represented on the insignia of the Basket-makers' Company:--

Azure, three cross-baskets in pale argent between a prime and an iron on the dexter, and a cutting knife and an outsticker on the sinister of the second--BASKET-MAKERS' Company.

4. Fish-baskets. See Weel.