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Spouted Punch Ladle with Elongated Wood Handle Ladle
This is a Ladle. It is dated 1731 and we acquired it in 1971. Its medium is silver, wood. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
text from "Implements of Eating" in Feeding Desire exhibition catalogue:
"The upper-middle class in eighteenth-century England and American evinced a passion for punch and other elaborate drinks such as toddies and syllabubs served from large bowls. These beverages called for special serving utensils, which prompted the development of lang-handled punch and toddy ladles, often with a crooked or curved shaft which enabled them to hang on the rime of the punch bowl without falling in. (The handle of the toddy ladly was somewhat shorter than that of the punch ladle.) (fig. 23)"
This object was
donated by
Dr. Charles W. Lester.
It is credited Gift of Dr. Charles W. Lester in memory of his wife, Marianne Stebbins Lester.
Its dimensions are
L x W x D: 28.2 × 8 × 3.4 cm (11 1/8 × 3 1/8 × 1 5/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Interior of bowl, stamped: [1] Leopard's head inside sheild (London assay mark) [2] 'Q' (date letter mark for 1731) [3] partial maker's mark 'R' [4] Lion Passant (0.925 fineness mark)
It is inscribed
Later engraving on reverse: [1] "D" [2] "RE" [3] 1785
Cite this object as
Spouted Punch Ladle with Elongated Wood Handle Ladle; England; silver, wood; L x W x D: 28.2 × 8 × 3.4 cm (11 1/8 × 3 1/8 × 1 5/16 in.); Gift of Dr. Charles W. Lester in memory of his wife, Marianne Stebbins Lester; 1971-74-1
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005.
