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Spoon

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Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1700-1799

GUSN

GUSN-2378

Description

Wooden spoon with oval band and long handles with flat round knop. Of dark wood; hand carved out of a single piece of wood.

Details

Descriptive Terms

spoons
carving (processes)
wood (plant material)
Wood
Carved
Treen
Spoon

Inscription

Handwritten paper label on reverse of bowl: Atkins

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

9 1/2 x 1 1/2 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.399

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