A silver spoon with a large bowl and very delicate handle.
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

A silver spoon with a very long thin handle which narrows towards the end and is tipped with a small pyramid shape, and a bowl which is large and ovular. The surface is polished to a high shine. There is no decoration or ornamentation with the exception of a small stamped flower on the inside of the bowl right by the handle.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.114.80
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Diamond Point Spoon
Classification
Tools and Equipment
Work Type
spoon
Date
mid -16th-century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229221

Location

Location
Level 2, Room 2340, European and American Art, 17th–19th century, The Silver Cabinet: Art and Ritual, 1600–1850
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
1.9 x 15.2 x 4.8 cm (3/4 x 6 x 1 7/8 in.)
unspecified: 23.4 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • maker's mark: on front of bowl, struck: Maker's mark: a five-petaled stylized flowerhead or cinquefoil (apparently Jackson, p. 524, line 14)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Archibald A. Hutchinson, Esq.
Accession Year
1949
Object Number
1949.114.80
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
With fig-shaped bow and tapering stem of hexagonal section with a terminal cast in the form of a hexagonal dipyramid

Publication History

  • Christopher Hartop, British and Irish Silver in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums/Yale University Press (Cambridge, Mass. and New Haven, 2007), p. 26, repr. in b/w as cat. no. 1

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2340 Cabinet Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/25/2019 - 06/02/2025

Verification Level

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