Spoon
ca. 1500 (made)
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Spoon, silver, parcel-gilt, with a Gothic finial, pear shaped bowl, gilt inside, short tapering hexagonal stem. Inscribed with the initials of five generations of the Postlethwayt family of Cumberland.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Silver and parcel-gilt |
| Brief description | Spoon, silver, parcel-gilt, England, ca.1500. |
| Physical description | Spoon, silver, parcel-gilt, with a Gothic finial, pear shaped bowl, gilt inside, short tapering hexagonal stem. Inscribed with the initials of five generations of the Postlethwayt family of Cumberland. |
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| Object history | Exhibitions: The Society of Antiquaries; 2 February 1888, (See Proceedings, Second series, Vol. XII, P.77) |
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| Bibliographic reference | Jackson, C., History of English Plate (p.491)
Howe, Elizabethan and Jacobean Spoons, Vol I, Section IV, Pl. 18, P.112
Albert Hartshorne, Cumberland and Westmoreland Archeological Society Transactions, X, 1889, pp.244-52 |
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| Accession number | M.180-1926 |
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| Record created | September 10, 2004 |
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