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Spoon
Jeremiah Dummer (American, 1645–1718)
1685
Object Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
18.26 cm (7 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
The Philip Leffingwell Spalding Collection—Given in his memory by Katharine Ames Spalding and Philip Spalding, Oakes Ames Spalding, and Hobart Ames Spalding
Accession Number42.254
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsSilver flatware
Catalogue Raisonné
Buhler, 1972, No. 13
DescriptionStem rectangular in section thinner at rather sharply curved short trifid tip (point at one side broken, the center bent forward). Very worn elliptical bowl stamped with rounded drop in grooved rattail, scroll and foliate design shown in other examples to taper at tip, each scroll lined with a row of dots.
Marks
ID fleur-de-lis below in heart in bowl, heart pointing to handle
InscriptionsEngraved on back, RB / RS / 1685 added on front in script L.R.P.
ProvenanceBuhler catalogue: Unknown.