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Tea Scoop Scoop
This is a scoop. It is dated 1833 and we acquired it in 1931. Its medium is silver. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
text from "Implements of Eating" in Feeding Desire exhibition catalogue:
"By the first decade of the eighteenth century, afternoon tea had become an imporatnat social function in England, and the size of ladies' teacups brought about a shortening of the spoon handles to better accommodate them. The side of caddy spoons was directly proportional to the cost of the tea itself. Initially quite small when tea was new and expensive, these spoons grew progressively larger as tea declined in cost (figs, 19, 20). Similar changes can be traced in the availability of sugar, whose implenets also reflecedt the march of industrialization."
This object was
donated by
Eleanor Garnier Hewitt and Sarah Cooper Hewitt.
It is credited Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
Its dimensions are
L x W x D: 8.3 × 2.3 × 1.5 cm (3 1/4 × 7/8 × 9/16 in.)
It has the following markings
On reverse of stem: Dutch mark indicating silver fineness of .833, used from 1814-1953; a helmeted head; two indeciferable marks; date letter: Y for 1833.
Cite this object as
Tea Scoop Scoop; Netherlands; silver; L x W x D: 8.3 × 2.3 × 1.5 cm (3 1/4 × 7/8 × 9/16 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1931-64-36
