Spoon
| Place of origin |
This spoon was fashioned in India and has rather naive, carved decoration.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Possibly serpentine, fashioned by hand using abrasives and abrasive-charged tools. |
| Brief description | Spoon, simple carved birds' heads, dark green with lighter green areas, probably serpentine, India |
| Physical description | A spoon, with a shallow bowl and an integral straight handle that has been carved with a duck's head terminal and with two naively carved birds' heads protruding sideways, at the junction of the shaft with the bowl. Dark green with a straight, paler green band running along the shaft and into the body of the bowl. |
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| Object history | This spoon was bought in 1876 by the South Kensington Museum (later renamed the Victoria & Albert Museum) for the sum of 2 shillings and 6 pence. |
| Summary | This spoon was fashioned in India and has rather naive, carved decoration. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 657-1876 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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