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Art of the Americas: July 2009–June 2011


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Ice cream slicer

about 1885
Frank W. Smith Silver Company
Length x width: 29.8 x 4.4 cm (11 3/4 x 1 3/4 in.)
Silver

Classification: Silver flatware

Object Place: Gardner, Massachusetts

Accession number: 2010.1000

Location: Robert P. and Carol T. Henderson Gallery (The Aesthetic Movement, 1870–1900)

Description: Engraved pattern: "Antique"

Provenance/Ownership History: By 2010, owned by V. Stephen Vaughan, Chelsea, Massachusetts; 2010, given by Vaughan to the MFA

Gift of V. Stephen Vaughan in memory of his beloved mother, Sudie Rebecca Stephens Vaughan