1937.137: Tablespoon
Tools and Equipment
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1937.137
- People
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Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Tablespoon
- Classification
- Tools and Equipment
- Work Type
- spoon
- Date
- 18th-19th century
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/230645
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver
- Dimensions
- 20.3 x 4.1 cm (8 x 1 5/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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inscription: Inscribed on handle end: BMW; Two incomplete stamps on back of handle, the same: L [?] or [ ] T?-- same mark as 1937.140
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inscription: Inscribed on handle end: BMW; Two incomplete stamps on back of handle, the same: L [?] or [ ] T?-- same mark as 1937.140
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Benjamin Wadsworth.
Mrs. Marjorie Gene Harkness.
Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1937.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Marjory Gane Harkness
- Accession Year
- 1937
- Object Number
- 1937.137
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- At base of handle, a seashell decoration. One of seven spoons once the property of Benjamin Wadsworth, A.B. 1690, the ninth president of Harvard,1725-1736/37. Handle made separately and attached.
Verification Level
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