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Collection Type

  • Cooking equipment

Date

1780-1800

GUSN

GUSN-55783

Description

Impressed mark: "S BOWNE". Oval bowl with pointed tip. Thin shaft swelling to an ovoid handle with slightly curved under pointed tip. Bright-cut oval paterae type decoration, typical of Federal period, with swag inner border enclosing initials "E.S.M."

Details

Descriptive Terms

flatware
silver (metal)
Set, Flatware
Set, Flatware

Associated Person

Morton, Eliza Susan

Associated Building

Original to Josiah Quincy House (Quincy, Mass.),

Maker

Bowne, S. (Maker)

Dimensions

1 (W) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Edmund Quincy

Accession Number

1972.33A-J

Places

Massachusetts (United States)

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