- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1949.114.80
- People
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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
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Level 2, Room 2340, European and American Art, 17th–19th century, The Silver Cabinet: Art and Ritual, 1600–1850
View this object's location on our interactive map - Physical Descriptions
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- 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
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- 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
- Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949
- Acquisition and Rights
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- 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
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- Description
- With fig-shaped bow and tapering stem of hexagonal section with a terminal cast in the form of a hexagonal dipyramid
- Publication History
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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
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32Q: 2340 Cabinet Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/25/2019 - 12/31/2024
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