Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Oval shaped bowl, decorated with radiating scrolls at base and continuing on bottom half along one side, forming reeded surface on obverse and fluted service on reverse side, and scalloped edge on both.Narrow neck and stem, decorated with diagonal reeding halfway down handle, meeting setting sun motif above banded section. Stem continues, flaring towards terminal, decorated with scrolling foliate pattern, including sun with scrolling rays. Terminating in crowned antique style "Assyrian" head with laurel surrounding neck. Terminal of slightly rounded rectagular shape, with subtle upturn. Reverse side of handle devoid of ornamentation, with plain polished surface.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Manufacturer
- Meriden Brittania Company, Meriden, Connecticut, USA, 1808 - 1898
- Designer
- Rogers Brothers Silver, Hartford and Meriden, Connecticut, 1847 - 1862
- Date
- 1885–86
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund
- Medium
- silver plated, metal
- Dimensions
- L x W x D: 21.4 × 5.4 × 3 cm (8 7/16 × 2 1/8 × 1 3/16 in.)
- Type
- cutlery
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- spoon
- Type
- spoon
