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Ladle

Attributed to: Clement Jackson, Jr. (1741–1777)
about 1760
Object Place: Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States

Medium/Technique Silver; wood
Dimensions 28.57 cm (11 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Caroline and Louise Sullivan Stavers
Accession Number41.721
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsSilver flatware

Catalogue Raisonné Buhler, 1972, No. 480
DescriptionLadle with turned wooden handle pinned at incised rim into tapering cone seamed at back, adjoining one seamed at side; incised bands above forked joining with ruonded tips to slightly everted leaf-ornamented rim of circular deep bowl.
Marks Marked C with a barred I, each with heavy serif at top, in a small rectangle.
InscriptionsEngraved on front of bowl: JSF / 1734 [sic]
ProvenanceMade for a member of the Stavers family of New Hampshire; descended in the family to the donors.