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Spoon rest

Collection Type

  • Cooking equipment

Date

1868-1899

GUSN

GUSN-7843

Description

Carp-shaped with tail upturned to form handle. Hollow interior forms sauce well; blue floral sprig. White body with cobalt blue underglaze overall.

Details

Descriptive Terms

cookware
porcelain
molding (forming)
underglazing
figure- and animal-derived motifs
carp
Porcelain
Carp
Underglazed
Molded
REST, SPOON

Inscription

Impressed on bottom: 193

Associated Building

Original to Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

2.5 (W) (inches)

Credit Line

Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan

Accession Number

1949.636.1

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