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![Entry from a book for "basket of fruit and flowers" or "corbeil." Flowers and plant forms were an important part of 17th century European ornament. Baskets of flowers (or fruit) combined well with luxuriant *festoons of the period as an applied ornament, e.g. on wall panels, or as a free-standing form, e.g. carved in stone on gate piers. Newel posts carved in the form of fruit and flower baskets appear in Carolean houses such as Thorpe Hall, Northamptonshire, and Tyttenhanger, Hertfordshire -- a feature typical of the work of virtuoso carvers of the period such a Grinling Gibbons (1648-1721) and his contemporary Edward Pearce. Schemes [rest of entry not in pic]
At the bottom of the page are photos of baskets with vegetation, one a newel post bursting with stuff, the other a metal engraving of two angels holding a basket of vegetation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cml4i2xjtc5gjucc4j6u7dk3/bafkreic4edcc7k74tf73wxprkzeonu4wreg3c4z2hetxhcy4fgphnuhodm)
