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Ladle with Shell-Shaped Bowl Ladle
This is a Ladle. It is dated 1760–1780 and we acquired it in 1986. Its medium is silver plated, copper. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
text from "Manufacturing and Marketing in Europe 1600-2000" in Feeding Desire exhibition catalogue:
" Trade cards for London silver dealers often claimed goods that were "made on the premises." Teh reality was that hundreds of small workshops of "Little Masters" supplied both wholesalers and retailers. Matthew Boulton in Birmingham had a reputation far larger, where flatware was concerned, than his capacity to manufacture. He sold a mere twelve silver forks to the trade in 1780 and supplied account customers with French-plated spoons from Sheffield (fig. 15). A further thirty-six plated knife handles were ordered from Winter, Hall, and Parsons of Sheffield."
This object was
bequest of
Walter Phelps Warren.
It is credited Bequest of Walter Phelps Warren.
Its dimensions are
L x W x D: 35.8 × 9.8 × 6.5 cm (14 1/8 × 3 7/8 × 2 9/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Unmarked
Cite this object as
Ladle with Shell-Shaped Bowl Ladle; England; silver plated, copper; L x W x D: 35.8 × 9.8 × 6.5 cm (14 1/8 × 3 7/8 × 2 9/16 in.); Bequest of Walter Phelps Warren; 1986-61-4
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005.
