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Serving Spoon

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1500-1600

GUSN

GUSN-3349

Description

Fig-shaped bowl on a hexagonal handle with a baluster knop and a short "rat tail" on the bowl's back.

Details

Descriptive Terms

serving spoons
casting (process)
latten
pewter (tin alloy)
tin alloy
Pewter
Latten
Cast
Spoon, Serving

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Location of Origin

Europe

Dimensions

5 (H) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1135

Places

Massachusetts (United States)

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