Ice Cream Shovel
1800-1801 (made)
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This ice cream shovel was used to serve ice cream at the dinner table, at suppers and elaborate tea parties. Ice cream became very popular in the Victorian period. Mrs Beeton wrote in 1888; " Ice has of late years become very cheap and easily obtained, so that it is constantly used in the kitchen...to prepare ices of cream and water with various flavourings."
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Silver-gilt |
| Brief description | Silver-gilt. London 1800-1801, mark of William Eley I and William Fearn |
| Physical description | Plain rectangular shovel with handle in Hanoverian shape. |
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| Credit line | Given by Sanda Lipton |
| Summary | This ice cream shovel was used to serve ice cream at the dinner table, at suppers and elaborate tea parties. Ice cream became very popular in the Victorian period. Mrs Beeton wrote in 1888; " Ice has of late years become very cheap and easily obtained, so that it is constantly used in the kitchen...to prepare ices of cream and water with various flavourings." |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | M.79-1997 |
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| Record created | April 8, 2009 |
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