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Sugar Tongs Sugar Tongs
This is a sugar tongs. It was made by William Esterbrook. It is dated 1826–1827 and we acquired it in 1931. Its medium is silver, gold. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
text from the introduction to "Feeding Desire":
The earliest flatware owned by the Museum's founders, Amelia, Eleanor, and Sarah Hewitt, to enter teh collection did so after the death of Sarah in 1930. It included German, Dutch, English, and French flatware (Fig. 3), ladles, scooprs and sugar tongs (or "nips") fromthe eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (fig. 4).
This object was
donated by
Sarah Cooper Hewitt.
It is credited Gift of Sarah Cooper Hewitt.
Its dimensions are
L x W: 16.6 × 5 cm (6 9/16 × 1 15/16 in.)
It has the following markings
On interior of tong arms: [1] “WE”, impressed (maker's mark) [2] Leopard’s head, impressed (town mark, 1822–) [3] “l”, impressed (date letter, 1826) [4] Head of King George IV, impressed (duty mark, 1822–1833) [5] Lion passant, impressed (standard mark, England)
Cite this object as
Sugar Tongs Sugar Tongs; Made by William Esterbrook; England; silver, gold; L x W: 16.6 × 5 cm (6 9/16 × 1 15/16 in.); Gift of Sarah Cooper Hewitt; 1931-66-2
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005.
