Spoon
1850-1869 (made)
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Reporting on the Museum’s Iranian holdings to date in May 1873, Robert Murdoch Smith assessed a set of wooden spoons a follows: “All these spoons are made of the wood of the pear tree at the small town of Abadeh (not Shiraz). They are usually made in three sizes, the largest for taking sherbet, the medium size for soup, pilau etc. and the smallest for pickles. These are fair specimens of this kind of work.” (V&A Archives).
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Carved wood (lime or pear) |
| Brief description | Carved wooden spoon, Iran (Abadeh), Qajar period, 1850-1869 |
| Physical description | Wooden spoon with a large boat-shaped bowl carved with vertical ribbing, fixed to a long rectangular handle decorated in openwork floral patterning. |
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| Object history | This spoon was purchased at the Paris Exhibition of 1867 for 12 shillings. |
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| Summary | Reporting on the Museum’s Iranian holdings to date in May 1873, Robert Murdoch Smith assessed a set of wooden spoons a follows: “All these spoons are made of the wood of the pear tree at the small town of Abadeh (not Shiraz). They are usually made in three sizes, the largest for taking sherbet, the medium size for soup, pilau etc. and the smallest for pickles. These are fair specimens of this kind of work.” (V&A Archives). |
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| Accession number | 929-1869 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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