Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Butter spreader, part of flatware service designed in "Martelé" silver for "Rockledge Estate" in Winona, Minnesota. Flat, rounded, and curving blade with curved tip. Waisted join, leading thick flat handle, with gently rounded sides, widening towards terminal. Obverse and reverse decorated with lily motif within border, stemming from join of handle continuing up handle with three sets of mirroring leaves on either side of central stem, terminating in mirroring lily blossoms encasing mongram 'EKG.' Terminal in form of segmented or flat arch. Textured hammered surface visible throughout handle.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- George Washington Maher, American, 1864–1926
- Manufacturer
- Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818
- Client
- Ernest L. and Grace King
- Retailer
- Spaulding & Co., American,
- Date
- 1911–12
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds
- Medium
- silver
- Dimensions
- L x W x D: 15.4 × 2.5 × 0.6 cm (6 1/16 in. × 1 in. × 1/4 in.)
- Type
- cutlery
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- knife
- Type
- knife
