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Spoon with Flower-form Terminal Spoon

This is a spoon. It is dated ca. 1700. Its medium is silver. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

from the introductory text to "Feeding Desire": " The earliest examples of flatware to enter the collection were a group do late eighteenth= and early nineteenth-century Scandinavian Dutch, and Russian sppons, given to the Copper Union Museum for the Arts od Decoration around 1898 by the artist and philathropist Samuel P. Avery.

This object was donated by Samuel P. Avery. It is credited Gift of Samuel P. Avery.

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  • Gift of S'Up Products Ltd UK.
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Its dimensions are

L x W x D: 19.2 × 5.9 × 2.6 cm (7 9/16 in. × 2 5/16 in. × 1 in.)

It has the following markings

Unmarked

It is inscribed

Scratched on back of handle: "Paris Ex 1889 Sweedish" [?]

Cite this object as

Spoon with Flower-form Terminal Spoon; Norway; silver; L x W x D: 19.2 × 5.9 × 2.6 cm (7 9/16 in. × 2 5/16 in. × 1 in.); Gift of Samuel P. Avery; 1898-6-18

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005.

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