1999.306.56.1-3: Set of Three Trefid Spoons

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1999.306.56.1-3

People

Adam King, British (active 1663 - 1678)

Title

Set of Three Trefid Spoons

Classification

Tools and Equipment

Work Type

spoon

Date

1678

Places

Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London

Period

Charles II (1660-1685)

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/326453

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

20 x 4.76 cm (7 7/8 x 1 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• hallmark: Struck on backs of the stems: lion passant, leopard's head, and date letter and with maker's mark

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

David Berg, New York; his bequest to the Fogg Museum, 1999.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of David Berg

Accession Year

1999

Object Number

1999.306.56.1-3

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Trifid-end stems and oval bowls, the terminals stamped with a wild figure amid foliage, the backs of the rat-tail bowls stamped with foliage, the back of one of the terminals engraved with a crest, another pricked A I over 1680 and another engraved H over TM, all three pricked with later initials EEW.

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), pp. 68-69, cat. no. 32, repr. p. 68

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