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"Assyrian Head" Pattern Table Spoon Spoon
This is a spoon. It was manufactured by Meriden Silver Plate Company. It is dated 1885–86 and we acquired it in 1995. Its medium is silver plated, metal. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
text from "Implements of Eating" in Feeding Desire exhibition catalogue:
"An extensive collection of individual flatware and serving pieces demonstrates both atste and presumed wealthy, but unfortunately, the ante was constantly being upped (fig. 28). Once everyone began to use forks, for instance, this utensil no longer represented status, even if knowing its proper usage did. Flatware manufactureres played on American's social anxiety and inherent insecurity about their relative lack of sophisticaion vis-a-vis the Europeans by introducing new forms, which led to the unprecedented proliferation of silverware during the second half of the nineteenth century."
It is credited Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund.
Its dimensions are
L x W x D: 18.2 × 4 × 3 cm (7 3/16 × 1 9/16 × 1 3/16 in.)
It has the following markings
On reverse of stem, stamped: [1] International Silver Co.
It is inscribed
On reverse of terminal, stamped: [1] PONCE DE LEON
Cite this object as
"Assyrian Head" Pattern Table Spoon Spoon; Manufactured by Meriden Silver Plate Company (United States); USA; silver plated, metal; L x W x D: 18.2 × 4 × 3 cm (7 3/16 × 1 9/16 × 1 3/16 in.); Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund; 1995-148-9
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005.
