spoon
Spoon
1758-1759 (made)
1758-1759 (made)
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This spoon is a typical example of a type popular across Europe in the first decade of the eighteenth century until about 1770. The style emerged in England around 1710, and has become known as 'Hanoverian' because it was popular during the reigns of the first two Hanoverian monarchs (George I and George II), who ruled between 1714-1760. The drop at the heel of this example (where the stem joins the bowl) is characteristic of spoons made after around 1730. The finial of the spoon has been designed so that the spoon can be placed on the table with its open bowl down (the opposite of how it would be set on the table today) and this is why the initials of the original owner are engraved on what we would now think of as the back of the spoon. This arrangement followed French fashions, which had developed at the end of the seventeenth century.
Object details
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Title | spoon (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Silver, forged and engraved |
Brief description | silver, English, London, 1758-59, mark of Robert Burton |
Physical description | silver, Hanoverian pattern, the bowl pointed with a drop on the back. |
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Credit line | Gift of J.H. Fitzhenry |
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Summary | This spoon is a typical example of a type popular across Europe in the first decade of the eighteenth century until about 1770. The style emerged in England around 1710, and has become known as 'Hanoverian' because it was popular during the reigns of the first two Hanoverian monarchs (George I and George II), who ruled between 1714-1760. The drop at the heel of this example (where the stem joins the bowl) is characteristic of spoons made after around 1730. The finial of the spoon has been designed so that the spoon can be placed on the table with its open bowl down (the opposite of how it would be set on the table today) and this is why the initials of the original owner are engraved on what we would now think of as the back of the spoon. This arrangement followed French fashions, which had developed at the end of the seventeenth century. |
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Accession number | 159-1903 |
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Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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