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"Medallion" Pattern Sifting Spoon Spoon
This is a spoon. It was manufactured by Ball, Black & Co.. It is dated ca. 1865 and we acquired it in 1995. Its medium is gold plated, silver. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
text from "From Fiddle to Fatuous..." in Feeding Desire exhibition catalogue:
"Many patterns were unquestionably designed to appeal to feminine tastes. Floral designs were always available; and the militaristic "Medallion" patterns of the Civil War era and the intellectual, exotic Japanese and NEar-EAstern patterns, which had dominated hte 1870's, were quickly superceded by Rococo revival of derivative traditional designs, whose curving lines were associated with femininty (fig. 18). Even racy Art Nouveau patterns, such as Alvin Manufacturing Company's "Raphael", Gorhams's "Mythologique" and especially Reed and Barton's "Love Disarmed", evidently appealed to sophisticaed women who were willing to put the latest fashion above lady like modesty as a new century dawned. "
It is credited Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund.
Its dimensions are
L x W x D: 20 × 6.4 × 3.3 cm (7 7/8 × 2 1/2 × 1 5/16 in.)
It has the following markings
On reverse of stem, stamped: [1] Ball Black & Co [2] Sterling [3] Patent 1862
Cite this object as
"Medallion" Pattern Sifting Spoon Spoon; Manufactured by Ball, Black & Co.; USA; gold plated, silver; L x W x D: 20 × 6.4 × 3.3 cm (7 7/8 × 2 1/2 × 1 5/16 in.); Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund; 1995-148-2
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005.
