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Tea Scoop with Shell Form Terminal Scoop
This is a scoop. It is dated 1844 and we acquired it in 1931. Its medium is silver. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
text from "The Design of Table Tools..." in Feeding Desire exhibition catalogue:
"The oval-shaped bowl, not called an "oval soup spoon", was designed first with an elliptical shape and later with an egg shape, made with a somewhat rounded and slightly solid food, such as vegetable or beef soup (fig. 8)."
This object was
donated by
Eleanor Garnier Hewitt and Sarah Cooper Hewitt.
It is credited Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
Its dimensions are
L x W x D: 8.3 × 3.3 × 1.8 cm (3 1/4 × 1 5/16 × 11/16 in.)
It has the following markings
On reverse of stem: Dutch stamp indicating .833 silver fineness, used from 1814-1953; a helmeted head; a date letter: K for 1844; an indeciferable mark.
Cite this object as
Tea Scoop with Shell Form Terminal Scoop; Netherlands; silver; L x W x D: 8.3 × 3.3 × 1.8 cm (3 1/4 × 1 5/16 × 11/16 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1931-64-31
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005.
