Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Oval spoon bowl, rattail and engraved decoration on back of spoon. Flat handle, flaring towards the end. Hinged, small sliding band. Handle has engraved floral decoartion on front and back with a lion in a cartouche on the back.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- ca. 1700
- Credit Line
- The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg
- Medium
- silver
- Dimensions
- L x W x D (overall): 16.1 × 3.8 × 1.7 cm (6 5/16 × 1 1/2 × 11/16 in.)
- L x W x D (folded): 8.9 × 3.8 × 2 cm (3 1/2 × 1 1/2 × 13/16 in.)
- Type
- cutlery
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- folding spoon
- Type
- folding spoon
